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pearch

pearch is the obsolete form of perch.

Meaning of perch

Noun

perch (plural perches or perch)

  1. Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca.
  2. (South Africa) Acanthopagrus berda
  3. (Ghana) Distichodus engycephalus, Distichodus rostratus
  4. (Australia) Johnius belangerii, Macquaria ambigua, Macquaria colonorum, Macquaria novemaculeata, Nemadactylus macropterus
  5. (US) Kyphosus azureus
  6. (UK) Lateolabrax japonicus, Tautogolabrus adspersus

See all 23 meanings of perch

Forms of pearch

pluralpearches

Questions about pearch

What is pearch the obsolete form of?
Pearch is the obsolete form of perch.

Words near pearch in the dictionary

  1. Pearcedale
  2. pearceite
  3. pearces
  4. Pearces Creek
  5. Pearcey
  6. pearch
  7. pearches
  8. pearcht
  9. pearcing
  10. Pearcy
  11. Pearcys

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pearch (page history and authors); perch (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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