coho

co·ho

 (kō′hō)

n. pl. co·hos or coho

The coho salmon.

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coho

(ˈkəʊhəʊ)

n, pl -ho or -hos

(Animals) a Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch. Also called: silver salmon

[origin unknown; probably from an American Indian language]

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co•ho

(ˈkoʊ hoʊ)

n., pl. -hos, (esp. collectively) -ho.

a small salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, of N Pacific coasts: introduced into the Great Lakes and other fresh waters.

Also called co′ho salm′on.

[1865–70; earlier cohose (construed as pl.) < Halkomelem (coast Salishan language of British Columbia) k̓^wə́x^wəθ]

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Thesaurus

Noun	1.	coho - fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes coho salmon, cohoe, silver salmon blue jack, Oncorhynchus kisutch, silver salmon, coho, coho salmon, cohoe - small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes salmon - flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae
	2.	coho - small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes blue jack, Oncorhynchus kisutch, silver salmon, coho salmon, cohoe 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 coho, coho salmon, cohoe, silver salmon - fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes

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