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Webster 1913 Edition

(kr?p′p?)

Noun.

(Zool.)

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.

[Written also

croppie

A black crappie

crappie ‎(plural crappies or crappie)

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.
- 2008, December 18, “Gene Mueller”, in More and more stripers making their way up Bay:
  If it's crappies you like, they're biting in 45-degree water.