crappie

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Either of two edible North American sunfishes, the black crappie or the white crappie.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A sunfish, Pomoxys annularis, of the family Centrarchidæ, found in the Mississippi.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Zoöl.) A kind of fresh-water bass of the genus Pomoxys, found in the rivers of the Southern United States and Mississippi valley. There are several species.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A member of either of two species of North American sunfish of the genus Pomoxis. Both are silvery-white with black speckles, and prized as gamefish.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun small sunfishes of central United States rivers
• noun small sunfishes of the genus Pomoxis of central United States rivers