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coho
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun coho has 2 senses
- coho(n = noun.food) coho salmon, cohoe, silver salmon - fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes; Array is a part of blue jack, coho, coho salmon, cohoe, oncorhynchus kisutch, silver salmon
- coho(n = noun.animal) blue jack, coho salmon, cohoe, oncorhynchus kisutch, silver salmon - small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes; Array is a kind of salmon
is a kind of salmon
is a member of genus oncorhynchus, oncorhynchus
has parts: coho, coho salmon, cohoe, silver salmon
OXFORD DICTIONARY
coho, n. (also cohoe) (pl. -os or -oes) a silver salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, of the N. Pacific.
Etymology
19th c.: orig. unkn.
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