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Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The common perch.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Prov. Eng. The common perch. See 1st bass.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the perch.

Etymologies

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From Middle English bars, from Old English bærs ("a fish, perch"), from Proto-Germanic *barsaz (“perch", literally "prickly fish”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhars-, *bharst- (“prickle, thorn, scale”). Cognate with Dutch baars ("baars"), German Barsch ("perch"), Latin fastus ("pride, arrogance, contempt").

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variants (1)

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  1. bass

forms (1)

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  1. bass

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