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coho salmon

or cohoe salmon

noun

  1. a small salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, of the North Pacific coasts and also in the Great Lakes, where it was introduced: important as a game and food fish.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of coho salmon1

First recorded in 1865–70; earlier cohose (construed as plural), from the mainland dialect of Halkomelem (a Salishan language spoken on the coast of British Columbia) k̉wə́xwəθ
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Example Sentences

Hooking mortalities could be as high as 68 percent in spotted seatrout, bluegills, crappies, and coho salmon.

Every fall, coho salmon undertake an epic journey from the ocean back to the freshwater streams and creeks where they were born so they can reproduce and then die shortly after.

Sportsman's guide to handling, smoking, and preserving Great Lakes coho salmon.

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