pickerel : Idioms & Phrases

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barred pickerel

  • noun small but gamy pickerel of Atlantic coastal states
    barred pickerel; Esox americanus.
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blue pickerel

  • noun variety inhabiting the Great Lakes
    Strizostedion vitreum glaucum; blue pike; blue pikeperch; blue walleye.
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chain pickerel

  • noun common in quiet waters of eastern United States
    Esox niger; chain pike.
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pickerel frog

  • noun a meadow frog of eastern North America
    Rana palustris.
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Pickerel weed

  • noun American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds
    pickerelweed; Pontederia cordata; wampee.
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  • (Bot.), a blue-flowered aquatic plant (Pontederia cordata) having large arrow-shaped leaves. So called because common in slow-moving waters where pickerel are often found.
Webster 1913

redfin pickerel

  • noun small but gamy pickerel of Atlantic coastal states
    barred pickerel; Esox americanus.
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