sockeye

Plural: sockeye, sockeyes

Noun

• A commercially important Pacific salmon, known for its red flesh.
• fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers
• small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning
• A small salmon with red flesh, Oncorhynchus nerka, found in the coastal waters of the northern Pacific.
• Edible flesh of this fish.

Examples

• Playing ’SOCKEYE’ was a rare catch, a high-value word from the deep.

Synonyms

blueback salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka, red salmon, sockeye salmon, kokanee