percher

A noun referring to a person situated on a perch, or a bird with feet adapted for perching on tree branches, a classification now generally abandoned by taxonomists.

• 🇫🇷Nom désignant une personne qui se perche ou s'assoit sur un perchoir, ou un oiseau dont les pattes sont adaptées pour se percher sur les branches d'arbres; classification aujourd'hui généralement rejetée par les taxinomistes.

1. Person on a perch C2 formal

   A person who is situated or sitting on a perch, such as a high seat or elevated position.

   • The percher on the high stool watched the crowd below.
   • He was a percher on the fence, observing the parade.
   • The artist painted a percher on a rooftop.

   🇫🇷Personne juchée sur un perchoir

2. Perching bird C2 formal scientific

   A bird with feet adapted for perching, typically on tree branches; this classification is now largely abandoned by taxonomists.

   • The sparrow is a classic example of a percher.
   • Ornithologists once grouped many songbirds as perchers.
   • The percher's feet are designed to grip branches tightly.

   🇫🇷Oiseau percheur

   Synonymes: passerineperching bird

• perchers plural form
• perchers' possessive plural form
• percher's possessive singular form