pickerel
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9.2
- noun
- /ˈpɪkərəl/
- US
:
pícaro
- The chef prepared a delicious dish using pickerel, garnished with fresh herbs.
Examples
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But a prairie ocean with fishing boats loaded with pickerel, lake trout, and Winnipeg goldeye.
Fiction book (1990) -
It wasn't flashy or particularly sturdy, but it was compact and has netted everything from silver salmon to pickerel in the last few years.
Blog text (9) -
After catching a pickerel during our fishing trip, we grilled it for dinner.
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I ordered pickerel at the restaurant because I had heard it was very flavorful.
Synonyms
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1.0
Meat from a water animal that people cook and eat
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1.0
Pink meat from the fish that people cook and eat
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1.4
A small silver fish often eaten smoked, salted, or pickled
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2.5
The flesh of a small oily sea fish eaten as food
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6.1
White lean fish meat from northern seas used for eating
A fish with oily, tasty flesh often cooked and eaten
A fish that lives in fresh water with a long body and dark marks like a chain
Compounds
A small brown frog with dark square spots that lives near ponds and in grassy areas
A water plant with spikes of blue flowers that grows in shallow ponds and streams
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Pickerel was first the name for a small pike and later came to mean its meat, so on a menu pickerel often means 'the flesh of a young or small pike'.