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Noun: silver salmon
  1. Fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes
    - coho salmon, coho, cohoe
     
  2. Small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes
    - coho, cohoe, coho salmon, blue jack, Oncorhynchus kisutch

Derived forms: silver salmon

Type of: salmon

Part of: genus Oncorhynchus, Oncorhynchus

Encyclopedia: Silver salmon