siscowet
Meaning
Noun
- A freshwater fish from Lake Superior in the Great Lakes, a variety of the lake trout.
Origin
- From an Ojibwe word, given by some English dictionaries as pemitewiskawet ("fish with oily meat") (compare bimide, -skaw-, -e), perhaps via French ciscoette.
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