See Also: perched(dictionary)
perched wetland(medicine)

perched (iou)



perched adjective. L17.
[from PERCH noun2, verb: see -ED2, -ED1.]
Provided with a perch or perches. L17.
Geology. Designating a block or boulder left resting on a pinnacle or other narrow support, e.g. by the melting of the ice which carried it there; having an elevation that is exceptionally high in relation to the immediate locality; (of groundwater) separated from an underlying saturated zone by an intervening unsaturated zone. M19.