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Definition of Silver perch
1. Noun. Small silvery drumfish often mistaken for white perch; found along coasts of United States from New York to Mexico.
Generic synonyms: Drum, Drumfish
Group relationships: Bairdiella, Genus Bairdiella
2. Noun. Small silvery food and game fish of eastern United States streams.
Generic synonyms: Serranid, Serranid Fish
Group relationships: Genus Morone, Morone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Silver Perch
Literary usage of Silver perch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sportsman's Gazetteer and General Guide: The Game Animals, Birds and by Charles Hallock (1877)
"silver perch, or Speckled Perch ; called also Strawberry Bass and Calico Bass.
... Apparently a cross between the yellow belly and silver perch. ..."
2. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania by Royal Society of Tasmania (1882)
"The Black and silver perch are the next in importance to the Trumpe er group as
regards quality and supply. ..."
3. The Sportsman's Gazetteer and General Guide: The Game Animals, Birds and by Charles Hallock (1877)
"silver perch, or Speckled Perch ; called also Strawberry Bass and Calico Bass.
... Apparently a cross between the yellow belly and silver perch. ..."
4. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"Its most common and appropriate name is white perch, but in North Carolina it is
called "silver perch", "black perch", or simply "perch". ..."
5. The American Angler's Guide: Or, Complete Fisher's Manual, for the United by John Jay Brown (1857)
"He says: " In our humble view, the yellow fins of the silver perch, ... This is
a little larger than the silver perch, and though denominated red, ..."
6. Fishes of Australia: A Popular and Systematic Guide to the Study of the by David George Stead (1906)
"The silver perch is one of the best known amongst our fluviatile food-fishes.
... The silver perch is really a most beautiful looking fish both as regards ..."
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