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Definition of Crappie

1. Noun. Small sunfishes of the genus Pomoxis of central United States rivers.

Definition of Crappie

1. n. A kind of fresh-water bass of the genus Pomoxys, found in the rivers of the Southern United States and Mississippi valley. There are several species.

Definition of Crappie

1. Noun. A member of either of two species of North American sunfish of the genus ''Pomoxis''. Both are silvery-white with black speckles, and prized as gamefish. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Crappie

1. an edible fish [n -S]

Literary usage of Crappie

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Outdoors: A Book of the Woods, Fields and Marshlands by Ernest McGaffey (1907)
"The crappie has a widespread range within his territorial limits, ... The crappie is a true sunfish, so far as his technical place among the fish is ..."

2. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"... crappie and Calico Bass Body rather short and greatly compressed; snout projecting; mouth large, oblique; maxillary broad, with a well-developed ..."

3. Bass, Pike, Perch and Others by James Alexander Henshall (1903)
"THE crappie (Pomoxis annularis) The crappie was first described by Rafinesque in 1818 from specimens collected at the Falls of the Ohio, near Louisville, ..."

4. Bass, Pike, Perch and Others by James Alexander Henshall (1903)
"I know of many instances occurring with myself and others where freshly caught fish have been revived after being frozen for several hours. THE crappie ..."

5. Bass, Pike, Perch and Other Game Fishes of America by James Alexander Henshall (1919)
"I know of many instances occurring with myself and others where freshly caught fish have been revived after being frozen for several hours. THE crappie ..."

6. Lake Maxinkuckee: A Physical and Biological Survey by Barton Warren Evermann, Howard Walton Clark (1920)
"The dorsal fin in the crappie has 5 or 6 sharp spines, while the calico bass ... In the crappie the anal fin is usually plain and the anterior profile is ..."

7. Warmwater Fisheries: Symposium I (1991) edited by James L. Cooper, R. H. Hamre (1999)
"The Schnabel population estimate for crappie greater than 200 mm was 36250 (95% ... Voluntary tag returns as a percentage of total tagged crappie was 6.6%. ..."

8. Outdoors: A Book of the Woods, Fields and Marshlands by Ernest McGaffey (1907)
"The crappie has a widespread range within his territorial limits, ... The crappie is a true sunfish, so far as his technical place among the fish is ..."

9. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"... crappie and Calico Bass Body rather short and greatly compressed; snout projecting; mouth large, oblique; maxillary broad, with a well-developed ..."

10. Bass, Pike, Perch and Others by James Alexander Henshall (1903)
"THE crappie (Pomoxis annularis) The crappie was first described by Rafinesque in 1818 from specimens collected at the Falls of the Ohio, near Louisville, ..."

11. Bass, Pike, Perch and Others by James Alexander Henshall (1903)
"I know of many instances occurring with myself and others where freshly caught fish have been revived after being frozen for several hours. THE crappie ..."

12. Bass, Pike, Perch and Other Game Fishes of America by James Alexander Henshall (1919)
"I know of many instances occurring with myself and others where freshly caught fish have been revived after being frozen for several hours. THE crappie ..."

13. Lake Maxinkuckee: A Physical and Biological Survey by Barton Warren Evermann, Howard Walton Clark (1920)
"The dorsal fin in the crappie has 5 or 6 sharp spines, while the calico bass ... In the crappie the anal fin is usually plain and the anterior profile is ..."

14. Warmwater Fisheries: Symposium I (1991) edited by James L. Cooper, R. H. Hamre (1999)
"The Schnabel population estimate for crappie greater than 200 mm was 36250 (95% ... Voluntary tag returns as a percentage of total tagged crappie was 6.6%. ..."

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