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Webster 1913 Edition

Percesoces

‖

Per-ces′o-ces

,

p

rop.

Noun.

pl.

[NL., fr. L.

perca

a perch +

esox

,

-ocis

, a pike.]

(Zool.)

An order of fishes including the gray mullets (

Mugil

), the barracudas, the silversides, and other related fishes. So called from their relation both to perches and to pikes.