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white perch

–noun
1. a small game fish, Morone americana, greenish-gray above and silvery below, inhabiting streams along the Atlantic coast of the U.S.
2. freshwater drum.
3. silver perch (def. 2).

Origin:
1765–75, Americanism
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white perch  
n.  A small food fish (Morone americana) having silvery sides shading to gray or olive above, native to the Atlantic coast and freshwater streams of eastern North America and found throughout the Great Lakes.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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