walleyed perch

walleyed perch
walleyed pike or walleyed perch,
a large, edible North American freshwater game fish, a pike perch, with large, staring eyes (in the southern United States also called blowfish).

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  • walleyed pike — noun pike like freshwater perches • Syn: ↑walleye, ↑jack salmon, ↑dory, ↑Stizostedion vitreum • Hypernyms: ↑pike perch, ↑pike perch • Hyponyms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • walleyed pike — walleye (def. 1). [1865 70, Amer.] * * * also called  Walleye,    fish that is a type of pikeperch (pike perch) (q.v.). * * * …   Universalium

  • pike perch — noun any of several pike like fishes of the perch family • Syn: ↑pike perch • Hypernyms: ↑perch • Hyponyms: ↑walleye, ↑walleyed pike, ↑jack salmon, ↑dory, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • pike-perch — noun any of several pike like fishes of the perch family • Syn: ↑pike perch • Hypernyms: ↑perch • Hyponyms: ↑walleye, ↑walleyed pike, ↑jack salmon, ↑dory, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • pike perch — ▪ fish       any of several freshwater food and game fishes of the family Percidae (order Perciformes), found in Europe and North America. Although more elongated and slender than perches, pike perches have the two dorsal fins characteristic of… …   Universalium

  • jack salmon — noun pike like freshwater perches • Syn: ↑walleye, ↑walleyed pike, ↑dory, ↑Stizostedion vitreum • Hypernyms: ↑pike perch, ↑pike perch • Hyponyms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • perciform — ▪ fish order Introduction       any member of the order Perciformes, a group of bony fishes with more than 6,000 species placed in about 150 families. The order is the largest group of fishes in the world today. Perciform fishes occur in… …   Universalium

  • blue pike — noun variety inhabiting the Great Lakes • Syn: ↑blue pickerel, ↑blue pikeperch, ↑blue walleye, ↑Strizostedion vitreum glaucum • Hypernyms: ↑walleye, ↑walleyed pike, ↑jack salmon, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • percopsis — psə̇s noun Usage: capitalized Etymology: New Latin, from Latin perca perch + New Latin opsis more at perch : a small genus (the type of the family Percopsidae) of trout perches much resembling young walleyed pikes and in many respects… …   Useful english dictionary

  • fish — Synonyms and related words: C, C note, Chinook salmon, G, G note, Loch Ness monster, Sunapee trout, aerial torpedo, albacore, alevin, alewife, alligator gar, amber jack, anchovy, angel fish, angle, anguille, archerfish, argusfish, babe, bait the… …   Moby Thesaurus

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