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/pˈɪkərəl wid/ Listen

noun

Pickerel n. (Written also pickerell)

A young or small pike. (Obs.) "Bet (better) is, quoth he, a pike than a pickerel."

(Zool.)

(a)

Any one of several species of freshwater fishes of the genus Esox, esp. the smaller species.

(b)

The glasseye, or wall-eyed pike. See Wall-eye. Note: The federation, or chain, pickerel (Esox reticulatus) and the brook pickerel (Esox Americanus) are the most common American species. They are used for food, and are noted for their voracity. About the Great Lakes the pike is called pickerel.

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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"Pickerel weed" Quotes from Famous Books

... out yonder, just beside the clump of arrow-shaped pickerel weed! Tim Reardon's heart beat joyfully, as he turned and saw the ripples receding from the spot where the fish had jumped. He swung his long rod, dropped the troll skilfully near the blue blossoms that adorned the clump of weed, and drew it ...

— The Rival Campers Ashore - The Mystery of the Mill • Ruel Perley Smith

... the tranquil lake flecked with islands, which looked like floating gardens of green on a purple mirror. Near us a wooden bridge led across a shallow cove passing between myriads of pickerel weed whose light purple spathes formed a striking mass of color. Beneath it long, slender patches of silvery blue rushes made magic hedges, so symmetrical as to seem clipped by the hand of art. So ethereal in their loveliness were they, we could account for their presence in no other ...

— See America First • Orville O. Hiestand