chum salmon

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chum salmon

A Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) with minute specks on its back that is fished for food and sport.

[Chinook Jargon cam, spotted, striped, from Lower Chinook c'ám(·), variegated.]

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chum salmon - a large Pacific salmon with small spots on its back; an important food fish

Oncorhynchus keta, chum

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

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