Pickerel

Definition of Pickerel

Pick´er`el
n.1.A young or small pike.
Bet [better] is, quoth he, a pike than a pickerel.
- Chaucer.
2.(Zool.) Any one of several species of freshwater fishes of the genus Esox, esp. the smaller species.
Pickerel weed
(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.

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