perches
Meaning of perches
- an object on which a bird alights or roosts, typically a branch or horizontal bar.
the budgerigar shuffled along its perch
- (of a bird) alight or rest on something.
a herring gull perched on the rails
late Middle English: the noun from perch3; the verb from Old French percher .
plural noun
an edible freshwater fish with a high spiny dorsal fin, dark vertical bars on the body, and orange lower fins.
late Middle English: from Old French perche, via Latin from Greek perkē .
plural noun- a measure of length, especially for land, equal to a quarter of a chain or 5 1/2 yards (approximately 5.029 m).
- a measure of area, especially for land, equal to 160th of an acre or 30 1/4 square yards (approximately 25.29 sq. metres).
Middle English (in the general sense ‘pole, stick’): from Old French perche, from Latin pertica ‘measuring rod, pole’.
Information about perches
- The singular form of perches is: perche.
- Languages in which perches is used:
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Hyphenation of perches
perches
- It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
- perches is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
perches synonyms
Meaning a long, slender, rounded piece of wood or metal, typically used with one end placed in the ground as a support for something:
Meaning a thin straight bar, especially of wood or metal:
Meaning a part of a tree which grows out from the trunk or from a bough:
Meaning a place where birds regularly settle or congregate to rest at night, or where bats congregate to rest in the day:
Meaning an instance or period of resting:
Meaning adopt or be in a position in which one's weight is supported by one's buttocks rather than one's feet and one's back is upright:
Meaning (of a bird) descend from the air and settle:
Meaning sit or come to rest in a comfortable position:
Meaning come down through the air and rest on the ground or another surface:
Words that rhyme with perches
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