Pickerel /(?)/

Pick·er·el

Pickerel

n.
  1. A young or small pike. [Obs.]
    Bet [better] is, quoth he, a pike than a pickerel.
  2. Any one of several species of freshwater fishes of the genus Esox, esp. the smaller species. (Zool.)

Phrases & Compounds
Pickerel weed
a blue-flowered aquatic plant (Pontederia cordata) having large arrow-shaped leaves. So called because common in slow-moving waters where pickerel are often found.