coho salmon

Questions about coho salmon

What does coho salmon mean?

coho salmon means "fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for coho salmon?

Close synonyms include silver salmon, coho, cohoe, coho, cohoe. 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 coho salmon a common word?

coho salmon is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.