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ˈpickerel-weed
[f. pickerel1 + weed.]
1. A name locally applied to certain weeds, found in still waters, amongst which pikes breed, and which formerly were popularly supposed to breed them; most commonly to species of Potamogeton or Pondweed.
1653Walton Angler vii. 148 His feeding is..sometime a weed of his owne, called Pikrel-weed, of which..some think some Pikes are bred. 1823E. Moor Suffolk Words, Pickarel-weed is..well known in Suffolk and Cambridge—and the idea that the sun's heat helps the breeding of pike in it, is common. 1853G. Johnston Nat. Hist. E. Bord. I. 250 The Pickerell-weeds throw out their oval or elliptical leaves that float so lightly on the surface.
2. In N. America, Any species of Pontederia, lacustrine plants, with sagittate leaves, and spikes of blue flowers. Also pickerel-flower.
1836Emerson Nature, Beauty Wks. (Bohn) II. 146 In July, the blue pontederia or pickerel-weed blooms in large beds in the shallow parts of our pleasant river. 1867― May-Day, etc., ibid. III. 419 Through gold-moth-haunted beds of pickerel-flower. 1868B. J. Lossing Hudson 21 This in the books, is called Pickerel Weed (Pontederia cordata..), but the guides call it moose-head. |