Word.ws English Dictionary

pickerel

UK/ˈpɪk(ə)ɹəl/

pickerel noun: a freshwater fish of the genus Esox.

pickerel: a freshwater fish of the genus Esox
Image: Drawing by Timothy Knepp, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

pickerel (plural pickerel or pickerels)

  1. A freshwater fish of the genus Esox.
    • I see, that the Pickrell-fish, and the Swallowes live well by her lawes.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 37, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
  2. (Canada) Walleye, A species of gamefish, Sander vitreus, native to the Northern U.S. and Canada with pale, reflective eyes.
  3. A wading bird, the dunlin.

Proper noun capitalized: Pickerel

Pickerel (plural Pickerels)

  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, United States.
  3. An unincorporated community in Langlade County, Wisconsin.

pickerel meaning in Tamil and Bengali

pickerel in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

pickerel in Bengali

ওয়ালআই, একটি পানকৌড়ি জাতীয় পাখি

Forms of pickerel

Noun
pluralpickerel
pluralpickerels
Proper noun
pluralPickerels

Plural of pickerel: pickerel or pickerels

Origin of pickerel

From Middle English pikerel; equivalent to pike + -rel.

Variant of Pickerill.

Words formed from pickerel

Phrases with pickerel

Questions about pickerel

What does pickerel mean?
Pickerel means a freshwater fish of the genus Esox.
What is pickerel in Tamil?
Pickerel in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Pickerel meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pickerel?
Pickerel can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce pickerel?
Pickerel is pronounced /ˈpɪk(ə)ɹəl/ (UK).
What is the plural of pickerel?
The plural of pickerel is pickerel.

Words near pickerel in the dictionary

  1. picker-up
  2. picker-upper
  3. picker-upperer
  4. picker-upperers
  5. picker-uppers
  6. pickerel
  7. pickerel frog
  8. pickerel weed
  9. pickerel weeds
  10. pickerels
  11. pickerelweed

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pickerel (page history and authors); Pickerel (page history and authors); pickerel (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pickerel (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “pickerel.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pickerel. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.