oncorhynchus

1. 1.

   Pacific salmon including sockeye salmon; chinook salmon; chum salmon; coho salmon

   Synonymsgenus Oncorhynchus

   Broaderfish genus

   Part ofSalmonidae

Other forms of oncorhynchus

plural

oncorhynchuses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about oncorhynchus

What does oncorhynchus mean?

oncorhynchus means "Pacific salmon including sockeye salmon; chinook salmon; chum salmon; coho salmon".

How many syllables are in oncorhynchus?

oncorhynchus has 4 syllables: on-cor-hyn-chus. The stress falls on "cor".

What is another word for oncorhynchus?

Close synonyms include genus Oncorhynchus. 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 oncorhynchus a common word?

oncorhynchus 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.