cohon.
/ˈkəʊhəʊ/, U.S. /ˈkoʊˌhoʊ/ A species of salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, found in the northern Pacific waters; the silver salmon.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > member of genus Oncorhyncus (chinook)
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spring salmon1776
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keta1824
quinnat1829
Chinook salmon1851
coho1869
king salmon1871
silver trout1873
kokanee1875
salmon1884
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pink salmon1899
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greenback cut-throat1989
1859 British Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 29 July 1/2 Lastly, there is the genus known by the Indian name of coocouse a hybrid bastard sort of fish, half trout, half salmon.]
1869 Mainland Guardian (New Westminster, Brit. Columbia) 25 Sept. 2/1 The second of salmon in class is the Cohose, which comes in September and continues to run until November.
1899 Bull. U.S. Fish Comm. 1898 18 6 The coho should rank next after the king salmon in food value.
1901 Scotsman 26 Mar. 5/1 The silver salmon or coho..are freely taken by means of spinning.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 390/1 The silver salmon or cohoe arrives [in British Columbia waters] a little later than the sockeye.
1965 A. J. McClane Standard Fishing Encycl. 191/1 Also called silver salmon and hook-nose, the coho is a popular gamefish of the Pacific Northwest.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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