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noun
A freshwater fish from Lake Superior in the Great Lakes, a variety of the lake trout.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
From an Ojibwe word, given by some English dictionaries as pemitewiskawet ("fish with oily meat") (compare bimide (“grease”), -skaw- (“meat of a fish”), -e (“an incorporating final”)), perhaps via French ciscoette.
