COHOE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cohoe mean? 

• COHOE (noun)
  The noun COHOE 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: COHOE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COHOE (noun)

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 ("cohoe" is a kind of...):

salmon (flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae)

Holonyms ("cohoe" 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 ("cohoe" 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 "cohoe"):

coho; coho salmon; cohoe; silver salmon (fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes)

Holonyms ("cohoe" is a member of...):

genus Oncorhynchus; Oncorhynchus (Pacific salmon including sockeye salmon; chinook salmon; chum salmon; coho salmon)