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sockeye
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun sockeye has 2 senses
- sockeye(n = noun.food) red salmon, sockeye salmon - fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers; Array is a part of blueback salmon, oncorhynchus nerka, red salmon, sockeye, sockeye salmon
- sockeye(n = noun.animal) blueback salmon, oncorhynchus nerka, red salmon, sockeye salmon - small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning; Array is a kind of salmon
is a kind of salmon
is a member of genus oncorhynchus, oncorhynchus
has parts: red salmon, sockeye, sockeye salmon
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sockeye, n. a blue-backed salmon of Alaska etc., Oncorhynchus nerka.
Etymology
Salish sukai fish of fishes
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