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percesocine

percesocine adjective: relating to, or resembling, fish of suborder Percesoces, including gray mullets, barracudas, and silversides.

Adjective

percesocine (not comparable)

  1. Relating to, or resembling, fish of suborder Percesoces, including gray mullets, barracudas, and silversides.
    • It is possible that it may have been an early offshoot from a Percesocine or Acanthopterygian stock, and cognate with the Hemibranchii; but too little is known of its anatomy to warrant an authoritative opinion.1888, John Sterling Kingsley, Lower vertebrates, page 262
    • Regan (1913) classified the percesocine fishes as two suborders of his order Percomorphi.1967, Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin, volume 8, page 150

Origin of percesocine

Percesoces + -ine

Questions about percesocine

What does percesocine mean?
Percesocine means relating to, or resembling, fish of suborder Percesoces, including gray mullets, barracudas, and silversides.
What part of speech is percesocine?
Percesocine is an adjective.

Words near percesocine in the dictionary

  1. perceptually
  2. perceptually blind
  3. perceptualness
  4. perceptum
  5. perceptuomotor
  6. percesocine
  7. Perceval
  8. perch
  9. perch plate
  10. perch plates
  11. perch pole

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