Oncorhynchus nerka

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

Oncorhynchus nerka - small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawningblueback salmon, red salmon, sockeye, sockeye salmonsalmon - any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawngenus Oncorhynchus, Oncorhynchus - Pacific salmon including sockeye salmon; chinook salmon; chum salmon; coho salmonred salmon, sockeye, sockeye salmon - fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers