Noun

• S: (n) perch (support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird))
• S: (n) perch, rod, pole (a linear measure of 16.5 feet)
• S: (n) perch, rod, pole (a square rod of land)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) perch (an elevated place serving as a seat)
• S: (n) perch (any of numerous fishes of America and Europe)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) freshwater fish (flesh of fish from fresh water used as food)
• S: (n) seafood (edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc)
• S: (n) food, solid food (any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment) "food and drink"
• S: (n) solid (matter that is solid at room temperature and pressure)
• S: (n) matter (that which has mass and occupies space) "physicists study both the nature of matter and the forces which govern it"
• S: (n) physical entity (an entity that has physical existence)
• S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
• part holonym
• S: (n) perch (spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes)
• S: (n) perch (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes)

Verb

• S: (v) perch, roost, rest (sit, as on a branch) "The birds perched high in the tree"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• S: (v) alight, light, perch (to come to rest, settle) "Misfortune lighted upon him"
• S: (v) perch (cause to perch or sit) "She perched her hat on her head"