bluegill

Questions about bluegill

What does bluegill mean?

bluegill means "important edible sunfish of eastern and central United States".

How many syllables are in bluegill?

bluegill has 2 syllables: blue-gill. The stress falls on "blue".

What is another word for bluegill?

Close synonyms include Lepomis macrochirus. 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 bluegill a common word?

bluegill 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.