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sea perch
noun
- any of various marine serranid fishes, such as the bass and stone bass, that have an elongated body with a very spiny dorsal fin and occur in all except polar seas
- another name for surfperch
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The bottom being sandy, I could see the sea-perch swimming about.
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They look to me like some kind of sea perch,” said the mate, “something like the bass one gets down in Cornwall.
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Forced through ennui to fish off the rocks, he soon tired of the sea-perch and rock-cod and the malodours of periwinkle and clam.
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It was indeed, I saw, a species of sea-perch, from the large spines on its back.
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