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percine

percine adjective: resembling a perch (the fish).

Adjective

percine (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Resembling a perch (the fish).
    • Got two fine Malapterursus and a Percine form from the natives.1885, William Alexander Forbes, “The Last Journal of W.A. Forbes”, in The Collected Scientific Papers of the Late William Alexander Forbes, R.H. Porter, page 468

Noun

percine (plural percines)

  1. (rare) A fish in the genus Perca.
    • The Percines, or typical perches, are recognizable by the elongated form of the body, and the numerous spines of the first or spinous dorsal fin1867, United States Dept. of Agriculture, “Economical American Freshwater Fishes”, in Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for 1866, Washington: Government Printing Office, page 405
  2. A protamine found in the sperm of yellow perch Perca flavescens
    • An other type of diprotamine contains arginine and histidine: the percine [from the perch, Perca flavescens] belongs to this group.2012, Christoph Scholtissek with B.M. Richards, R. Vendrely, C. Vendrely, and D.P. Bloch, Chemistry and Cytochemistry of Nucleic Acids and Nuclear Proteins, Springer, →ISBN, page 16

Forms of percine

pluralpercines

Origin of percine

From Latin perca (“perch”) + -ine.

Questions about percine

What does percine mean?
Percine means resembling a perch (the fish).
What part of speech is percine?
Percine can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near percine in the dictionary

  1. percieves
  2. percieving
  3. perciform
  4. perciforms
  5. Percilla
  6. percine
  7. percines
  8. percing
  9. percipience
  10. percipiences
  11. percipiency

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