coho salmon
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coho salmon
n.
A salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) with silvery sides and a dark back, native to northern Pacific waters and introduced into the Great Lakes. Also called silver salmon.
[Alteration of cohose, from Halkomelem (Salishan language of southwestern British Columbia) k'wəxwəθ.]
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| Noun | 1. |  coho salmon - fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakesblue jack, Oncorhynchus kisutch, silver salmon, coho, coho salmon, cohoe - small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes salmon - flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae |
| 2. | coho salmon - small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes salmon - any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn genus Oncorhynchus, Oncorhynchus - Pacific salmon including sockeye salmon; chinook salmon; chum salmon; coho salmon coho, coho salmon, cohoe, silver salmon - fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes |
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