chum salmon
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- noun
- /tʃʌm ˈsælmən/
- Specialized
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salmón keta
- PHOTO (COLOR): One of many animals to benefit from salmon runs, a bald eagle, top, rips the flesh from a chum salmon.
Examples
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The bears eagerly wait at the riverbank to catch chum salmon during the annual run.
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A chum salmon returns to Piper's Creek at Carkeek Park.
Blog text (20) -
In 1988, there was an abundance of chum salmon (also used for salmon steaks and for salmon roe), prompting exporters to market large quantities in Germany.
Academic text (1990) -
Every summer, thousands of chum salmon swim upstream to spawn in the rivers.
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Fishermen in Alaska rely on chum salmon as a vital source of food and income.
Synonyms
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A large Pacific salmon with small spots on its back eaten for food
A large Pacific salmon with small dark spots on its back that people eat
A type of salmon found in the North Pacific
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Morphology
This is a straightforward noun–noun compound denoting a type of salmon: if a learner knows 'chum' as a salmon species and 'salmon' as the fish, the combined meaning ('a kind of salmon') is directly derivable. The taxonomic compositional pattern is common and predictable, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will understand it.
Etymology
Chum salmon may come from a local native word that sounded like chum and meant 'spotted'. People used that word for the fish with small spots on its back, so today chum salmon refers to that kind of salmon.