northern pike

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   voracious piscivorous pike of waters of northern hemisphere

   SynonymsEsox lucius

   Broaderpike

Questions about northern pike

What does northern pike mean?

northern pike means "voracious piscivorous pike of waters of northern hemisphere".

What is another word for northern pike?

Close synonyms include Esox lucius. 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 northern pike a common word?

northern pike 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.