English noun: sockeye |
1. | sockeye (food) fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers |
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| Synonyms | red salmon, sockeye salmon |
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| Broader (hypernym) | salmon |
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| Part meronym | blueback salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka, red salmon, sockeye, sockeye salmon |
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2. | sockeye (animal) small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning |
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| Synonyms | blueback salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka, red salmon, sockeye salmon |
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| Broader (hypernym) | salmon |
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| Part holonym | red salmon, sockeye, sockeye salmon |
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| Member meronym | genus Oncorhynchus, Oncorhynchus |
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