Also sandre, sander. [G. zander; in mod.L. sandra (Cuvier).] A common European species of pike-perch, Stizostedion lucioperca (Lucioperca sandra), valued as a food-fish.
1854. Badham, Halieut., 114. The German sandre, pike-perch, one of the best-flavoured of the family.
1888. Goode, Amer. Fishes, 14. In the Old World,… there are two well marked species, the Zander, or Schill, S[tizostedion] lucioperca, and the Berschick, or Sekret, S. volgensis.
