quinnat salmon

Questions about quinnat salmon

What does quinnat salmon mean?

quinnat salmon means "large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning".

What is another word for quinnat salmon?

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

quinnat 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.