Ichth. [f. L. luci-us pike + -OID.] a. sb. A fish of the family Esocidæ; a pike. b. adj. Belonging to this family (Cent. Dict.).
1836. Yarrell, Brit. Fishes (ed. 3), I. 343. This expert ichthyologist has restricted the Esocidæ (Lucioids), or family of Pikes, to the single genus Esox.
1859–62. Sir J. Richardson, etc., Mus. Nat. Hist. (1868), II. 153. Lucioids (Esocidæ).
