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rainbow perch

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Noun1.rainbow perch - Pacific coast fish
surfperch, surf fish, surffish - small to medium-sized shallow-water fishes of the Pacific coast of North America
genus Hipsurus, Hipsurus - a genus of Embiotocidae


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He thought it was degrading to the rainbow perch he'd reeled in gleaming from the cliffs, the black rockbass, scales like polished carbon, in beds of kelp along the coast--and he realized that the reason for the word was crabs, or mussels, clams.
``Last time I was here, I caught a buttermilk rainbow perch - orange belly, neon-blue sides,'' he said while baiting a hook at the extreme end of the pier, the only place where fishing is permitted.
 
 
 
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