Definition of Percine

1. pertaining to fish of the perch family [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Percine

perchlorinating
perchlorination
perchlorinations
perchlorobenzene
perchlorobenzoic
perchlorobenzoic acid
perchloroethylene
perchloroethylenes
perchloroheteroaromatic
perchloromethane
perchromic
perchromic acid
perciform
perciformes
perciforms
percine (current term)
percing
percipience
percipiences
percipient
percipiently
percipients
perclose
percoct
percoid
percoid fish
percoidea
percoidean
percoids
percolate

Literary usage of Percine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of Fiction: Being a Critical Account of the Most Celebrated by John Colin Dunlop (1876)
"SI has also written La Belle aux Cheveux d'o Le Rameau d'or, and Gracieuse et percine which seems to have been suggested by tl tasks imposed on Psyche, ..."

2. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1859)
"The skeleton of Therapon differs in nothing particularly from that of the percine type, and docs not yet show those developed grooves on the skull of the ..."

3. The Chemical Constitution of the Proteins by Robert Henry Aders Plimmer (1917)
"... contains arginine and lysine; percine contains arginine and histidine. The general composition of the protamines seems to be a^nt or (ahl\m or (ah\m ..."

4. Electric Transmission of Energy and Its Transformation, Subdivision, and by Gisbert Kapp (1894)
"... horse-power, percine (Tyrol) for 100 horse-power, St. Etienne (France) for 1000 horse-power, and Florensac (France) for 100 horsepower. The AEG Dynamos. ..."

5. Italy by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1899)
"... (road from Arsiero via Caldonazzo to percine and Levico, see p. 18) ; another to the W. to (3 M.) ..."

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