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Definition of Sockeye
1. Noun. Fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers.
Group relationships: Blueback Salmon, Oncorhynchus Nerka, Red Salmon, Sockeye Salmon
Generic synonyms: Salmon
2. Noun. Small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning.
Generic synonyms: Salmon
Group relationships: Genus Oncorhynchus, Oncorhynchus
Terms within: Red Salmon, Sockeye Salmon
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
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 ..."