coho salmon

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.

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[Alteration of cohose, from Halkomelem (Salishan language of southwestern British Columbia) k'^wəx^wəθ.]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	coho salmon - fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakescoho, cohoe, silver salmonblue jack, Oncorhynchus kisutch, silver salmon, coho, coho salmon, cohoe - small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakessalmon - 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 Lakesblue jack, Oncorhynchus kisutch, silver salmon, coho, cohoesalmon - 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 salmoncoho, coho salmon, cohoe, silver salmon - fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes