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English noun: sockeye

1. sockeye (food) fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers


Synonymsred salmon, sockeye salmon


Broader (hypernym)salmon


Part meronymblueback salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka, red salmon, sockeye, sockeye salmon

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


Synonymsblueback salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka, red salmon, sockeye salmon


Broader (hypernym)salmon


Part holonymred salmon, sockeye, sockeye salmon


Member meronymgenus Oncorhynchus, Oncorhynchus









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