murray-perch

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• Perch

  ·vt To occupy as a perch. II. Perch ·vt To place or to set on, or as on, a perch. III. Perch ·vi T...

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• perch

  n. This English fish-name is appliedwith various epithets to many fishes in Australia, some of thet...

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• perch

  A pole stuck up on a shoal as a beacon; or a spar erected on or projected from a cliff whence to wat...

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• Murray, Lindley

  (1745-1826) Grammarian, was b. in Pennsylvania, and practised as a lawyer. From 1785 he lived in En...

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• lily, murray

  n. i.q. Darling Lily. See above. 1877. F. v. Mueller, `Botanic Teachings,' p. 119: «This showy ge...

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• murray-carp

  n. See carp. ...

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• murray-cod

  n. an important fresh-waterfood-fish, Oligorus macquariensis, Cuv. and Val., called Kookoobal by th...

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• murray-lily

  n. See lily. ...

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• Sea perch

  ·- The sea bass. II. Sea perch ·- The <<Cunner>>. III. Sea perch ·- The name is applied also to ot...

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• black-perch

  n. a river fish of New South Wales. Therapon niger, Castln., family Percidae.A different fish from ...

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• golden-perch

  n. a fresh-water fish ofAustralia, Ctenolates ambiguus, Richards., family Percidae, and C. christyi...

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• magpie-perch

  n. a West Australian, Victorian,and Tasmanian fish, Chilodactylus gibbosus, Richards.;not a true Pe...

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• parrot-perch

  n. See parrot-fish. ...

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• pearl-perch

  n. a rare marine fish of New SouthWales, excellent for food, Glaucosoma scapulare, Ramsay,family Pe...

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• red perch

  n. name given in Tasmania to the fish Anthias rasor, Richards.; also called the Barber.In Australia...

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• rock-perch

  n. the name given in Melbourneto the fish Glyphidodon victoriae, Gunth., family Pomacentridae, or C...

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• sea-perch

  n. a name applied to differentfishes – – in Sydney, to the Morwong (q.v.) and Bull's – eye (q.v.); ...

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• silver-perch

  n. a fresh-water fish,i.q. Bidyan Ruffe (q.v.). ...

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• trumpeter-perch

  n. i.q. mado (q.v.). ...

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• fresh-water perch

  n. name given in Tasmania tothe fish Microperca tasmaniae. ...

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• red gurnet-perch

  n. name given in Victoria tothe fish Sebastes percoides, Richards., family Scorpaenidae. It is also...

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• Murray, George Gilbert Aimee

  LL.D. (b. 1866) Scholar. History of Ancient Greek Literature (1897), Euripidis Fabulæ adnotatione ...

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• Murray, Sir James Augustus Henry

  LL.D., D.C.L., etc. (b. 1837) Philologist. Ed. of New English Dictionary, Dialect of the Southern ...

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