Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Percesoces

Percesoces , proper noun, plural

[New Latin, from Latin perca a perch + esox, -ocis, a pike.]

(Zoology) 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.