blueback salmon

Questions about blueback salmon

What does blueback salmon mean?

blueback salmon means "small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning".

What is another word for blueback salmon?

Close synonyms include sockeye, sockeye salmon, red salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blueback salmon a common word?

blueback salmon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.