/mus"keuh lunj'/ , n. , pl. muskellunges , ( esp. collectively ) muskellunge .
a large game fish, Esox masquinongy, of the pike family, found in the lakes and rivers of eastern and middle western North America.
Also, maskalonge, maskinonge, muskallonge .
[ 1780-90, Amer.; earlier muskinunge, masquenongez (F sp.), etc., maskinongé ma·skino·se·, ma·skino·se· (equiv. to Proto-Algonquian * mya·si similar to, kind of + * kenwesye·wa northern pike) ]