Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) with silvery sides and a dark back, native to northern Pacific waters and introduced into the Great Lakes.
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- noun A species of
anadromous fish in thesalmon family (Oncorhynchus kisutch )
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- noun small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes
- noun fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Alteration of cohose, from Halkomelem (Salishan language of southwestern British Columbia) k'wəxwəθ.]
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coho + salmon
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