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Definition of Quinnats
1. quinnat [n] - See also: quinnat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quinnats
Literary usage of Quinnats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the New by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Archaeological Institute of America Southwest Society, Sequoya League (1903)
"Salmon: "Well may Rainbow boast; he belongs to the great salmon family. Next to me.
he is the most important fish in the river. Rainbows resemble quinnats a ..."
2. Fifteen Years' Sport and Life in the Hunting Grounds of Western America and by William Adolph Baillie-Grohman (1900)
"After the deposition of the spawn is finished, the quinnats are completely exhausted.
... In the stomach of quinnats caught at sea animals have ..."
3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"The run of quinnats begins in the Columbia River as early as February or March.
At first the fishes travel leisurely, moving up only a few miles each day. ..."
4. Reports of the Department of Commerce and Labor 1904-1912: Report of the by Dept. of Commerce and Labor, United States (1905)
"When the above information was received, these salmon were said to be quinnats,
the result of plants made nine years ago, but an investigation ..."
5. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission by United States Fish Commission (1904)
"... salmon in Paper-mill Creek about 1890, but with these exceptions he never saw
any fishes in the stream that might be taken for quinnats until 1900. ..."
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