oncorhynchus nerka

Questions about oncorhynchus nerka

What does oncorhynchus nerka mean?

oncorhynchus nerka 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 oncorhynchus nerka?

Close synonyms include sockeye, sockeye salmon, red salmon, blueback 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 oncorhynchus nerka a common word?

oncorhynchus nerka 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.