[krap-ee] 
) -pie. | either of two small sunfishes of central U.S. rivers, Pomoxis nigromaculatus (black crappie) or P. annularis (white crappie). |
| crap·pie (krŏp'ē) n. pl. crap·pies Either of two edible North American sunfishes, the black crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus) or the white crappie (P. annularis). [Canadian French crapet.] |