picaneau

[< Cdn F < Algonk.; see 1897 quote]

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a large, oily fish of the sucker family, Catostomus sp.

1804

We take large fat picaneau in our sturgeon nets; they are excellent eating, but too oily, and tend to increase the disease [diarrhea].

1804

[We] too 3 large Piconoes in our Net.

1897

Piccanan, picconou, etc. are forms of the Cree name of a certain sucker, Catostomu lesueri.

1933

Connor's "picanoes" should be piconou, listed by Taché as the Cyprinus (Catastomus) sueurii. It is a fish belonging to the family of carp.