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Definition of Blue pickerel
1. Noun. Variety inhabiting the Great Lakes.
Generic synonyms: Dory, Jack Salmon, Stizostedion Vitreum, Walleye, Walleyed Pike
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blue Pickerel
Literary usage of Blue pickerel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nantucket Wild Flowers by Alice Owen Albertson (1921)
"... Pontederia cordata, L. Varying shades of lilac-blue. Pickerel-weed. Pontederia:
plant dedicated to Pontedera, a professor at Padua in the 18th century. ..."
2. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany: For High Schools and by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1890)
"The blue pickerel-weed (Pontederia) is the type of a family of which there are
few common representatives (Fig. 84, I, K). The last family of the order is ..."
3. Supplement to The History of Windham in New Hampshire: A Scotch Settlement. by Leonard Allison Morrison (1892)
"The sweet white water-lily, yellow pond-lily, and blue pickerel-weed, in muddy
brooks and shallow ponds; the cattail flag, blue-flag, and white arrow-head, ..."