chinook salmon

1. 1.

   pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon

   Synonymschinookking salmon

   Broadersalmon

   Part ofchinook
2. 2.

   large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning

   Synonymschinookking salmonquinnat salmonOncorhynchus tshawytscha

   Broadersalmon

   Part ofOncorhynchus

   Partschinook salmon

Questions about chinook salmon

What does chinook salmon mean?

chinook salmon means "pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for chinook salmon?

Close synonyms include chinook, king salmon, chinook, king salmon, quinnat salmon. 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 chinook salmon a common word?

chinook 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.