cisco

[ sis-koh ]

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noun

, plural (especially collectively) cis·co, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) cis·coes, cis·cos.

any of several whitefishes of the genus Coregonus, of the Great Lakes and smaller lakes of eastern North America.

cisco

/ ˈsɪskəʊ /

any of various whitefish, esp Coregonus artedi , of cold deep lakes of North America Also calledlake herring

Origin of cisco¹

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50; from Canadian French, back formation from ciscoette, ciscaouette from Ojibwe; siscowet

Origin of cisco¹

C19: short for Canadian French ciscoette, from Ojibwa pemitewiskawet fish with oily flesh

Cisco founders Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner have reportedly given 70 percent of the $170 million they earned to animal welfare.

Cisco Systems, the most valuable company in the world in March 2000, has lost 70 percent of its value.

Ten days ago—a few days after the planned first broadcast of the Panorama documentary—NDS was sold to Cisco for $5 billion.

They also brought in a new CEO, Tony Bates, a veteran Cisco executive, who got the company running more smoothly.

During his time at Cisco, he chaired an Internet task force for the U.K. government.

In the Cisco Lake Region there are many lakes, mostly small, but several of a length of one to three miles.

In the Cisco Lake Region a few of the areas of timber killed by the raising of the water-level have grown up to cat-tail swamps.

Nine individuals were shot while they were flying over the lakes in the Cisco Lake Region.

Several times one was seen in daylight about the camp in the Cisco Lake Region, and several were trapped during daylight hours.

Muskrats are numerous in the Cisco Lake Region, and five specimens were taken.

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