Lexic.us

Definition of Sockeye

1. Noun. Fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers.

2. Noun. Small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning.

Definition of Sockeye

1. Noun. a small salmon with red flesh, ''Onchorynchus nerka'', found in the coastal waters of the northern Pacific ¹

2. Noun. the edible flesh of this fish ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sockeye

1. a food fish [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sockeye

socked socked on the nose sockeroo sockeroos socket socket joint socket wrench socket wrenches socketed socketing

socketless socketlike sockets sockette sockettes sockeye (current term) sockeye salmon sockeyes sockful sockfuls

sockhop sockhops socking sockless socklessness socklike sockmaker sockmakers sockman sockmen

Literary usage of Sockeye

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Facts, Thought, and Imagination: A Book on Writing by Henry Seidel Canby, Frederick Erastus Pierce, Willard Higley Durham (1917)
"The derivation of the term " sockeye " is obscure; Dr. Jordan suggests that it may be derived ... The sockeye is the smallest but one of the five species, ..."

2. Miscellaneous Publications by Bureau of Statistics and Immigration, Washington (State) (1920)
"In a commercial way, the Columbia River Chinook has for a number of years held supremacy but in the last few years the Puget Sound sockeye has been gaining ..."

3. Source Book for the Economic Geography of North America by Charles Carlyle Colby (1921)
"PUGET SOUND-FRASER RIVER SALMON INDUSTRY' The sockeye salmon which frequent the Fraser River in British Columbia are natives of that stream. ..."

4. Report of the First-tenth Annual Meeting by Canada Commission of Conservation (1918)
"In June, the adult sockeye made their appearance in the canon of the Fraser, ... The greater proportion of the run of sockeye that reached the canon at Yale ..."

5. Lands, Fisheries and Game, Minerals, 1911 by Canada Commission of Conservation (1911)
"The sockeye run in all the mainland rivers, in some of the rivers of the west coast ... The periodicity in the run of sockeye, which is so pronounced in the ..."

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