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pickerel

DEFINITIONS OF: pickerel

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n any of several North American species of small pike

Types:
Esox niger, chain pickerel, chain pike
common in quiet waters of eastern United States
Esox americanus, barred pickerel, redfin pickerel
small but gamy pickerel of Atlantic coastal states
Type of:
pike
any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the northern hemisphere

n flesh of young or small pike

Type of:
pike
highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh
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