chain pickerel

1. 1.

   common in quiet waters of eastern United States

   Synonymschain pikeEsox niger

   Broaderpickerel

Questions about chain pickerel

What does chain pickerel mean?

chain pickerel means "common in quiet waters of eastern United States".

What is another word for chain pickerel?

Close synonyms include chain pike, Esox niger. 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 chain pickerel a common word?

chain 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.