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Noun: silver perch
  1. Small silvery drumfish often mistaken for white perch; found along coasts of United States from New York to Mexico
    - mademoiselle, Bairdiella chrysoura
     
  2. Small silvery food and game fish of eastern United States streams
    - white perch, Morone americana

Derived forms: silver perches

Type of: drum, drumfish, serranid, serranid fish

Part of: Bairdiella, genus Bairdiella, genus Morone, Morone

Encyclopedia: Silver perch