pearl-perch

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• Pearl

  ·noun A fringe or border. II. Pearl ·noun A light-colored tern. III. Pearl ·noun Nacre, or mother-...

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• Pearl

  (Heb. gabish, Job 28:18; Gr. margarites, Matt. 7:6; 13:46; Rev. 21:21). The pearl oyster is found in...

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• pearl

  A beautiful concretion found in the interior of the shells of many species of mollusca, resulting fr...

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• Pearl

  (Heb. gabish). The Hebrew word in (Job 28:18) probably means "crystal." Pearls, however are frequent...

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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

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• Pearl-eyed

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• Pearl Court

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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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• murray-perch

  n. a freshwater fish, Oligorusmitchelli, Castln., closely allied to Oligorusmacquariensis, the Murr...

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• parrot-perch

  n. See parrot-fish. ...

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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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• Mother-of-pearl

  ·noun The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, ·esp. of pearl oysters, river musse...

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• mother-of-pearl

  The iridescent nacreous inner layer of several species of shells, especially the "pearl-oyster" (Mel...

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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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• Craigie, Mrs. Pearl Mary Teresa (Richards)

  (1867-1906) Dau. of John Morgan, R. b. in Boston, Massachusetts. Most of her education was received...

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