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Meanings of Perciform:

adjective

Relating to fishes of an order (perciformes) that comprises those resembling the perches. this is the largest vertebrate order and includes nearly half of all bony fishes.

Usage examples:

More derived taxa commonly possess fins located higher on the body, near the center of mass of the …

noun

Relating to fishes of an order ( perciformes ) that comprises those resembling the perches. this is the largest vertebrate order and includes nearly half of all bony fishes.

Meanings of Percipience:

noun

The quality of having sensitive insight or understanding; perceptiveness.

Usage examples:

Age has not impaired his percipience

Meanings of Percipiency:

noun

The quality of being percipient; the action, condition, or faculty of perception; recognition; insight.

Meanings of Percipient:

adjective

Having good insight or understanding; perceptive.

Usage examples:

He is a percipient interpreter of the public mood

noun

(especially in philosophy or with reference to psychic phenomena) a person who is able to perceive things.

Usage examples:

Results indicated that one of the percipients ' reports should be evaluated with special caution.

Meanings of Percoid:

noun

A fish of a large group that includes the perches, basses, jacks, snappers, grunts, sea breams, and drums.

adjective

Relating to or denoting the percoids.

Usage examples:

These and other phylogenetic hypotheses will be tested in future studies with an expanded coverage …

Meanings of Percoids:

noun

A fish of a large group that includes the perches, basses, jacks, snappers, grunts, sea breams, and drums.

adjective

Relating to or denoting the percoids.

Usage examples:

These and other phylogenetic hypotheses will be tested in future studies with an expanded coverage …

Meanings of Percolate:

verb

(of a liquid or gas) filter gradually through a porous surface or substance.

Usage examples:

The water percolating through the soil may leach out minerals

Meanings of Percolated:

adjective

(of coffee) prepared in a percolator.

Usage examples:

Freshly percolated coffee

verb

(of a liquid or gas) filter gradually through a porous surface or substance.

Usage examples:

The water percolating through the soil may leach out minerals

Meanings of Percolates:

verb

(of a liquid or gas) filter gradually through a porous surface or substance.

Usage examples:

The water percolating through the soil may leach out minerals

Meanings of Percolating:

verb

(of a liquid or gas) filter gradually through a porous surface or substance.

Usage examples:

The water percolating through the soil may leach out minerals

Meanings of Percolation:

noun

The process of a liquid moving slowly through a substance that has very small holes in it

Usage examples:

The percolation of water through rocks, so far we haven't seen much percolation of higher energy pr…

Meanings of Percolative:

adjective

Allowing or involving the gradual filtering of a liquid or gas through a porous surface or substance.

Usage examples:

Percolative structures

Meanings of Percolator:

noun

A machine for making coffee, consisting of a pot in which boiling water is circulated through a small chamber that holds the ground beans.

Usage examples:

After debating this issue for decades, scientists have concluded that coffee made in a percolator o…

Meanings of Percolators:

noun

A machine for making coffee, consisting of a pot in which boiling water is circulated through a small chamber that holds the ground beans.

Usage examples:

After debating this issue for decades, scientists have concluded that coffee made in a percolator o…

Meanings of Percomorph:

adjective

Of or relating to the former order percomorphi or the series percomorpha, both of which comprise most of the acanthopterygian fishes.

noun

A percomorph fish.

Meanings of Percomorphi:

adjective

Of or relating to the former order percomorphi or the series percomorpha, both of which comprise most of the acanthopterygian fishes.

noun

A percomorph fish.

Meanings of Percontation:

noun

A question or inquiry which requires more than a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer.

Meanings of Percurrent:

adjective

Of a linear structure (especially the midrib, costa, or median vein of a leaf or frond): extending throughout the entire length.

Meanings of Percuss:

verb

Gently tap (a part of the body) with a finger or an instrument as part of a diagnosis.

Usage examples:

The bladder was percussed

Meanings of Percussed:

verb

Gently tap (a part of the body) with a finger or an instrument as part of a diagnosis.

Usage examples:

The bladder was percussed

Meanings of Percusses:

verb

Gently tap (a part of the body) with a finger or an instrument as part of a diagnosis.

Usage examples:

The bladder was percussed

Meanings of Percussing:

verb

Gently tap (a part of the body) with a finger or an instrument as part of a diagnosis.

Usage examples:

The bladder was percussed

Meanings of Percussion:

noun

Musical instruments played by striking with the hand or with a stick or beater, or by shaking, including drums, cymbals, xylophones, gongs, bells, and rattles.

Usage examples:

Percussion instruments

Meanings of Percussional:

adjective

Of or relating to percussion.

Meanings of Percussionist:

noun

A player of a percussion instrument, especially in an orchestra.

Usage examples:

The six percussionists backing the orchestra lift their cymbals high in the air