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) area unit, square measure (a system of units used to measure areas)
• S: (n) perch (an elevated place serving as a seat)
• S: (n) perch (any of numerous fishes of America and Europe)
• 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)
• member holonym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term

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"