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Definition of Nerka
1. n. The most important salmon of Alaska (Oncorhinchus nerka), ascending in spring most rivers and lakes from Alaska to Oregon, Washington, and Idaho; -- called also red salmon, redfish, blueback, and sawqui.
Definition of Nerka
1. the sockeye salmon [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nerka
Literary usage of Nerka
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"Of the species of Oncorhynchus, the blueback (O. nerka) predominates in Fraser
River and ... The usual order of running in the rivers is as follows: nerka, ..."
2. Publications in Fisheries by Washington State University (1916)
"'Oncorhynchus nerka (Walbaum). ... Nevertheless, a few ichthyologists are
recognizing it as Oncorhynchus nerka ..."
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