🐟 A small salmon 🍣 Salmon meat

cohoe

9.9

The fatty pink flesh of a small salmon eaten as food

noun
/koʊˈhoʊ/

: carne de salmón coho

The chef prepared the cohoe with a simple lemon and dill sauce.

Examples

Smoked cohoe is a delicacy in many Pacific Northwest markets.
I love to eat cohoe during the summer.
We caught several cohoe while fishing on Lake Michigan last summer.
The restaurant serves delicious cohoes with lemon.
The chef prepared the cohoe with a simple lemon and dill sauce.
Smoked cohoe is a delicacy in many Pacific Northwest markets.
We caught several cohoe while fishing on Lake Michigan last summer.

Synonyms

fish

vscohoe

805 1.0

Meat from a water animal that people cook and eat

is the fatty pinkish flesh of a single small Pacific species

coho salmon

vscohoe

1 3.0

A small salmon from the Pacific Ocean often eaten for its tender flesh

is only the flesh rather than the living fish itself

saltwater fish

vscohoe

1 1.9

Meat from fish that live in the sea and people eat

is a specific small Pacific salmon flesh rather than general sea fish meat

coho

vscohoe

8.0

The pink, fatty flesh of a small salmon that people eat as food

is valued for its flavor rather than merely being commonly eaten

silver salmon

vscohoe

3.1

Pink fatty meat from a small salmon often sold and eaten as food

is the same flesh but expressed with an alternative common name

Oncorhynchus kisutch

vscohoe

Specialized

9.9

A small salmon that lives in the northern Pacific and the Great Lakes and is fished for its meat

is the flesh only, not the species or living animal

Surface Forms

cohoe singular

cohoes plural

Etymology

Cohoe is also used for the fish's 'fatty pinkish flesh' because people often name the meat after the fish. So when you see cohoe in a market or recipe it usually means the salmon meat valued as food.