cisco
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- noun
- /ˈsɪskoʊ/
- US
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cisco
- In the clear waters of northern lakes, schools of cisco can be seen swimming near the surface.
- Arctic cisco
- Bering cisco
Examples
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New fish species included northern pike, a species of flounder, hooligans, silver and pink salmon, and Bering Sea cisco.
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The Arctic cisco have a feeling about the water; they head toward the ocean.
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One systematic fish study has been done in the village, focusing on Arctic cisco.
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One scientific study contends that the decline in Arctic cisco is also part of a cyclical process.
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Fishers use under-ice nets to catch Arctic cisco, char, and broad whitefish.
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The fish we get, the cisco—it seems more contaminated—like chemicals are eating away at it, not that another fish had taken a bite out of it.
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In the words of one fisher, "There are parasites in the fish, lesions in the muscles and ovaries of the broad whitefish and the Arctic cisco."
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In the freshwater rivers of Avak Inlet, spotted seals are known to eat Bering ciscos, Coregonus laurettae, and other fish (Nelson 12).
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During the winter, fishermen often target cisco through the ice in the Great Lakes.
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The diet of lake trout includes smaller fish like cisco, which thrive in cold water.
Synonyms
A freshwater fish that lives in cold deep lakes in North America and is eaten as food
A fish from cold North American lakes often eaten as food
A group of related freshwater fish that live in cold northern lakes
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cisco probably comes from a Native American name that English picked up through Canadian French, when fishermen in the north used it for a local lake fish. So cisco today means a 'small, silvery, cold-water lake fish'.