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1. Sit, as on a branch
   "The birds perched high in the tree";
   - roost, rest
    
2. To come to rest, settle
   - alight, light
    
3. Cause to perch or sit
   "She perched her hat on her head"

1. Support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird)
    
2. A square rod of land
   - rod, pole
    
3. An elevated place serving as a seat
    
4. Any of numerous fishes of America and Europe
    
5. Spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes
    
6. Any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes
    
7. [Brit, archaic] A linear measure of 16.5 feet
   - rod [Brit], pole [Brit]

Derived forms: perches, perching, perched

Type of: area unit, freshwater fish, land, lay, linear measure, linear unit, percoid, percoid fish, percoidean, place, pose, position, put, seat, set, set down, sit, sit down, square measure, support

Part of: European perch, family Percidae, furlong, order Perciformes, order Percomorphi, Perca flavescens, Perca fluviatilis, Percidae, Perciformes, Percomorphi, roost, yellow perch

Encyclopedia: Perch, James