Definition of Chain pickerel

1. Noun. Common in quiet waters of eastern United States.

Exact synonyms: Chain Pike, Esox Niger
Generic synonyms: Pickerel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chain Pickerel

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chain gangs
chain guard
chain gun
chain guns
chain isomer
chain letter
chain letters
chain lightning
chain locker
chain lockers
chain mail
chain of custody
chain of mountains
chain of title
chain pickerel (current term)
chain pike
chain printer
chain pump
chain reaction
chain reactions
chain reactor
chain reflex
chain saw
chain saws
chain smoker
chain stitch
chain stitches
chain store
chain stores

Literary usage of Chain pickerel

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

1. The Freshwater Aquarium and Its Inhabitants: Guide for the Amateur Aquarist by Otto Eggeling, Frederick Ehrenberg (1912)
"This pickerel occurs in ditches and streams from New York to Florida. The Green Pike, chain pickerel, Common Eastern Pickerel (Esox ..."

2. Adventure Guide to the Champlain & Hudson River Valleys by Patricia Foulke, Robert Foulke (2003)
"Fishing The Delaware has small bass, chain pickerel and walleyes. Greenwood Lake offers large bass, small bass, chain pickerel, panfish and tiger musky. ..."

3. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey by North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey, North Carolina Geological Survey (1883-1905) (1907)
"The chain pickerel is a voracious feeder, consuming minnows and other small ... chain pickerel; PIKE. Esox reticulatus. Considerable quantities of this fish ..."

4. American Fishes: A Popular Treatise Upon the Game and Food Fishes of North by George Brown Goode, Theodore Gill (1903)
"Its peculiar markings have given it the name of "chain pickerel," and patriotic Americans of early Federal days called it the " Federation Pike," an ..."

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