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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A North American freshwater food and game fish (Sander canadensis), resembling the walleye but having a slender body and a spotted dorsal fin.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A percoid fish, Stizostedion canadense, the smaller American pike-perch, also called sand-pike, ground-pike, rattlesnake-pike, jack, and horn-fish. See cut under Stizostedion.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion Canadense); -- called also gray pike, blue pike, hornfish, land pike, sand pike, pickering, and pickerel.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A freshwater perciform fish, Sander canadensis

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Origin unknown.]

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