Definition of "percoid" []

• Of or relating to the Percoidea, a large suborder of spiny-finned fishes that includes the perches, sunfishes, groupers, and grunts. (adjective)
• A fish belonging to the suborder Percoidea. (noun)

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• "The nearest respectable sport for the fly or minnow man is with black bass, in the smaller lakes and connecting rivers within two or three hours 'railway journey; and there are six or eight other percoid forms such as striped, calico, and rock bass, and several of the sunfishes, all of which take a fly."
• "This is a percoid, _Serranus nigritus_ of Holbrook, and one of the very best table-fishes of these waters."