Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The coho salmon.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, found from San Francisco northward and on the Asiatic coasts southward to Japan.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
anadromus andsemelparous salmon ,Oncorhynchus kisutch , found in the coastal regions of the northernPacific Ocean , used as asymbol by severalNative American tribes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes
- noun small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sunday evening, Oct. 23, in West Seattle, a public drumming ceremony will call coho back to Fauntleroy Creek.
The Seattle Times 2011
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"We fished the tide change [Tuesday] at Jeff Head and got an 18 pound coho, which is one of the biggest I've gotten in Puget Sound."
The Seattle Times 2008
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One problem: federal agencies responsible for protecting threatened species such as coho salmon and marbled murrelets don't think timber harvests can be increased by a third under the current system of habitat protections without causing harm.
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One problem: federal agencies responsible for protecting threatened species such as coho salmon and marbled murrelets don't think timber harvests can be increased by a third under the current system of habitat protections without causing harm.
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BLM officials and environmental groups say endangered wildlife, such as coho salmon, the northern spotted owl and the marbled murrelet, a diminutive seabird that nests in old-growth redwoods, would be disturbed if new trails were cut and hikers, horse riders or mountain bikers poured in.
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California, fisherman and tribal members unsuccessfully pushed for a temporary moratorium on suction dredging to protect threatened fish such as coho salmon.
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California, fisherman and tribal members unsuccessfully pushed for a temporary moratorium on suction dredging to protect threatened fish such as coho salmon.
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California, fisherman and tribal members unsuccessfully pushed for a temporary moratorium on suction dredging to protect threatened fish such as coho salmon.
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California, fisherman and tribal members unsuccessfully pushed for a temporary moratorium on suction dredging to protect threatened fish such as coho salmon.
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In California, fisherman and tribal members unsuccessfully pushed for a temporary moratorium on suction dredging to protect threatened fish such as coho salmon.
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