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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) of northern Pacific coastal waters, having a silvery body with a dark bluish back and small black speckles. Both sexes turn red before spawning.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning
- noun fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[By folk etymology from Halkomelem (Salishan language of southwest British Columbia) sthə́qə’y.]
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