percine

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin perca (perch) +‎ -ine.

Adjective

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percine (not comparable)

  1. (rare, obsolete) Resembling a perch (the fish).
    • 1885, William Alexander Forbes, “The Last Journal of W.A. Forbes”, in The Collected Scientific Papers of the Late William Alexander Forbes[1], R.H. Porter, page 468:
      Got two fine Malapterursus and a Percine form from the natives.

Noun

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percine (plural percines)

  1. (rare) A fish in the genus Perca.
    • 1867, United States Dept. of Agriculture, “Economical American Freshwater Fishes”, in Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for 1866[2], Washington: Government Printing Office, page 405:
      The Percines, or typical perches, are recognizable by the elongated form of the body, and the numerous spines of the first or spinous dorsal fin
  2. (biochemistry) A protamine found in the sperm of yellow perch Perca flavescens
    • 2012, Christoph Scholtissek with B.M. Richards, R. Vendrely, C. Vendrely, and D.P. Bloch, Chemistry and Cytochemistry of Nucleic Acids and Nuclear Proteins, Springer, →ISBN, page 16:
      An other type of diprotamine contains arginine and histidine: the percine [from the perch, Perca flavescens] belongs to this group.

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