sockeye salmon

sock·eye salmon  (sk)

n.

A salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) of northern Pacific coastal waters that is a commercially valuable food fish. Also called blueback salmon, red salmon.

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[By folk etymology from Halkomelem (Salishan language of southwest British Columbia) sthq'y.]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	sockeye salmon - fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers red salmon, sockeye blueback salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka, red salmon, sockeye, sockeye salmon - small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning salmon - flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae
	2.	sockeye salmon - small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning blueback salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka, red salmon, sockeye salmon - any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn genus Oncorhynchus, Oncorhynchus - Pacific salmon including sockeye salmon; chinook salmon; chum salmon; coho salmon red salmon, sockeye, sockeye salmon - fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers