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coho salmon

or cohoe salmon

noun

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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Also called blue jack, coho, cohoe, silver salmon.

Origin of coho salmon

1865–70; earlier cohose (construed as plural) <Halkomelem (mainland dial.) k̉wə́xwəθ

Words nearby coho salmon

cohoba, cohobate, Cohoes, cohort, cohortative, coho salmon, cohosh, co-host, cohousing, COHSE, cohune
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