blue pickerel

1. 1.

   variety inhabiting the Great Lakes

   Synonymsblue pikeblue pikeperchblue walleyeStrizostedion vitreum glaucum

   Broaderwalleye

Questions about blue pickerel

What does blue pickerel mean?

blue pickerel means "variety inhabiting the Great Lakes".

What is another word for blue pickerel?

Close synonyms include blue pike, blue pikeperch, blue walleye, Strizostedion vitreum glaucum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blue pickerel a common word?

blue pickerel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.