Definition of Blue pike

1. Noun. Variety inhabiting the Great Lakes.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Blue Pike

blue murder
blue mussel
blue mussels
blue naevus
blue nevus
blue noise
blue note
blue notes
blue oedema
blue ointment
blue orchid
blue pea
blue peafowl
blue peter
blue pickerel
blue pike (current term)
blue pikeperch
blue pimpernel
blue plate special
blue plate specials
blue point
blue point Siamese
blue pointed
blue poppy
blue print
blue prints
blue pus
blue pus bacillus
blue racer
blue ribbon

Literary usage of Blue pike

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

1. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"They all admit, however, that they have never found any blue pike with roe, ... We have been shown fish which some fishermen said were blue pike which ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Pike-perch and a few blue pike are taken in the Susque- nna, where shad are no longer ... The blue pike, whitefish and herring, obtained on Lake Erie are of ..."

3. Bass, Pike, Perch and Others by James Alexander Henshall (1903)
"On Lake Erie the coloration varies somewhat with age, the younger ones being known as blue pike, the mature fish as yellow pike, and the oldest and largest ..."

4. Bass, Pike, Perch and Other Game Fishes of America by James Alexander Henshall (1919)
"the country I have noticed its variableness of coloration, which might be inferred from some of its names, as gray pike, yellow pike, blue pike, ..."

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