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COHO SALMON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does coho salmon mean?
• COHO SALMON (noun)
The noun COHO SALMON has 2 senses:
1. fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes
2. small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes
Familiarity information: COHO SALMON used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
coho; coho salmon; cohoe; silver salmon
Hypernyms ("coho salmon" is a kind of...):
salmon (flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae)
Holonyms ("coho salmon" is a part of...):
blue jack; coho; coho salmon; cohoe; Oncorhynchus kisutch; silver salmon (small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
blue jack; coho; coho salmon; cohoe; Oncorhynchus kisutch; silver salmon
Hypernyms ("coho salmon" is a kind of...):
salmon (any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn)
Meronyms (parts of "coho salmon"):
coho; coho salmon; cohoe; silver salmon (fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes)
Holonyms ("coho salmon" is a member of...):
genus Oncorhynchus; Oncorhynchus (Pacific salmon including sockeye salmon; chinook salmon; chum salmon; coho salmon)
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