coho salmon
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- noun
- /ˈkoʊhoʊ ˈsælmən/
- US
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salmón coho
- On the U.S. East Coast, commercial salmonid farming started in the early 1970s with a few private operations that raised coho salmon and rainbow trout.
Examples
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The ability to produce large quantities of chinook and coho salmon will provide Canadian fish farmers with a specialty product that will not compete with the famous Norwegian salmon.
Academic text (1990) -
At that time, to put this in perspective, about 123,000 native coho salmon returned to the Alsea River on the central Oregon coast.
Academic text (1995) -
For these reasons, the agent will be returned to Chile for infection experiments in coho salmon.
Academic text (1992) -
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife coho salmon spawning surveys.
Academic text (2001) -
The tables and counter are filled with fishermen from all over Wisconsin and Illinois who have come to catch some coho salmon in the fall.
Fiction book (1990) -
During the past decade, a number of salmonids, including the coho salmon, have been introduced to coastal waters of Chile for net-pen culture.
Academic text (1992) -
Historically, the Columbia produced more chinook and coho salmon and steelhead trout than any other river in the world.
Academic text (2012) -
Among other things, the Fishery Council's management plan would determine the allowable catch of coho salmon for commercial and recreational fishermen.
Academic text (1995) -
The State of New Hampshire had a long-term (1960-90) program of importation of coho salmon eggs.
Academic text (1992) -
The chef prepared a delicious dish featuring coho salmon with herbs and lemon.
Synonyms
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1.0
Pink meat from the fish that people cook and eat
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A small salmon that lives in the north Pacific and Great Lakes and is caught for food and sport
A small salmon that lives in the northern Pacific and Great Lakes
A small salmon that lives in the northern Pacific and the Great Lakes and is fished for its meat
A small salmon with a shiny silver body that lives in the northern Pacific and the Great Lakes
A small salmon that lives along the northern Pacific coasts and in the Great Lakes
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Morphology
This is a straightforward noun–noun compound: 'coho' names a specific Pacific salmon species and 'salmon' is the general fish, so the meaning 'a type of salmon (or its flesh)' is directly derivable from the constituents. Species-labeling compounds are common cross-linguistically and therefore a B1 learner who knows both words would readily understand the expression.
Etymology
Coho salmon likely gets its name from a local Native word that Pacific fishermen used for this shiny, silver fish. Because the short word coho caught on, today coho salmon means the smaller Pacific salmon often called 'silver salmon' and commonly eaten.