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Chinook Salmon

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Noun

1. chinook, chinook salmon, king salmon

pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon

2. chinook, chinook salmon, king salmon, oncorhynchus tshawytscha, quinnat salmon

large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Chinook Salmon

see synonyms of chinook salmon
noun
a Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus tschawytscha, valued as a food fish
. Also called: quinnat salmon, king salmon

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Chinook Salmon

see synonyms of chinook salmon
the largest species (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) of Pacific salmon: it is an endangered species

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Chinook Salmon

see synonyms of chinook salmon
n.
A large salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) native to northern Pacific waters and stocked in the Great Lakes, characterized by irregular black spots on the back and tail fin. Also called king salmon, quinnat salmon.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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