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o⋅quas⋅sa

  [oh-kwas-uh, oh-kwah-suh]
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–noun, plural -sas, (especially collectively) -sa.
a small, dark-blue brook trout, Salvelinus oquassa, of Maine.
Origin:
1880–85; < Eastern Abenaki ὰk2əsse
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o·quas·sa   (ō-kwās'ə, ō-kwä'sə)   
n.   pl. oquassa or o·quas·sas
A freshwater trout (Salvelinus oquassa) found in the Rangeley Lakes in western Maine.

[After Lake Oquassa, a lake of western Maine.]
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