Percesoces

Per`ces´o`ces

n. pl.

1.

(Zool.) An order of fishes including the gray mullets (Mugil), the barracudas, the silversides, and other related fishes. So called from their relation both to perches and to pikes.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.