inconnu

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From the waters of this river, since man was, have the Indians drawn and dipped and seined their sustenance--inconnu, jack-fish, grayling, white-fish, and loche.

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  1. In ichthyology, a salmonoid fish, the Mackenzie river salmon, Stenodus mackenzii, resembling the whitefishes, Coregonus, but with a deeply cleft mouth, much-projecting lower jaw, broad lanceolate supramaxillaries, and teeth in bands on the vomer, palatines, and tongue. It inhabits the Mackenzie river and its tributaries in northwestern Canada, and reaches a large size. It was an unknown fish to the Canadian voyageurs who first saw it, and the name perpetuates the impression first conveyed.

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/ ænkɑˈnju/
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