sockeye salmon

1. 1.

   fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers

   Synonymsred salmonsockeye

   Broadersalmon

   Part ofsockeye
2. 2.

   small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning

   Synonymssockeyered salmonblueback salmonOncorhynchus nerka

   Broadersalmon

   Part ofOncorhynchus

   Partsred salmon

Questions about sockeye salmon

What does sockeye salmon mean?

sockeye salmon means "fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for sockeye salmon?

Close synonyms include red salmon, sockeye, sockeye, 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 sockeye salmon a common word?

sockeye 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.