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English
Etymology
From Latin perca (“perch”) + -ine.
Adjective
percine (not comparable)
- (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, R.H. Porter, page 468:Got two fine Malapterursus and a Percine form from the natives.
Noun
percine (plural percines)
- (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, 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
- (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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