coho salmon

coho salmon

noun
a small salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, of the North Pacific coasts and also in the Great Lakes, where it was introduced: important as a game and food fish.
Also, cohoe salmon.
Also called blue jack, coho, cohoe, silver salmon.


Origin:
1865–70; earlier cohose (construed as plural) < Halkomelem (mainland dial.) wə́xwəθ
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Coho salmon is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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coho salmon

noun
1. fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes [syn: silver salmon
2. small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes [syn: coho
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