ONCORHYNCHUS KISUTCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Oncorhynchus kisutch mean? 

• ONCORHYNCHUS KISUTCH (noun)
  The noun ONCORHYNCHUS KISUTCH has 1 sense:

1. small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes

  Familiarity information: ONCORHYNCHUS KISUTCH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ONCORHYNCHUS KISUTCH (noun)

Sense 1

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 ("Oncorhynchus kisutch" 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 "Oncorhynchus kisutch"):

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

Holonyms ("Oncorhynchus kisutch" is a member of...):

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