Definition of Sockeye salmon

1. Noun. Fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers.

Exact synonyms: Red Salmon, Sockeye
Group relationships: Blueback Salmon, Oncorhynchus Nerka, Red Salmon, Sockeye
Generic synonyms: Salmon

2. Noun. Small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning.
Exact synonyms: Blueback Salmon, Oncorhynchus Nerka, Red Salmon, Sockeye
Generic synonyms: Salmon
Group relationships: Genus Oncorhynchus, Oncorhynchus
Terms within: Red Salmon, Sockeye

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sockeye Salmon

socked on the nose
sockeroo
sockeroos
socket
socket joint
socket wrench
socket wrenches
socketed
socketing
socketless
socketlike
sockets
sockette
sockettes
sockeye
sockeye salmon (current term)
sockeyes
sockful
sockfuls
sockhop
sockhops
socking
sockless
socklessness
socklike
sockmaker
sockmakers
sockman
sockmen
socko

Literary usage of Sockeye salmon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Source Book for the Economic Geography of North America by Charles Carlyle Colby (1921)
"PUGET SOUND-FRASER RIVER SALMON INDUSTRY' The sockeye salmon which frequent ... Up to the present year (1917) the run of sockeye salmon to the Fraser River ..."

2. Miscellaneous Publications by Bureau of Statistics and Immigration, Washington (State) (1920)
"On Puget Sound the sockeye salmon holds the favorite place. Once every four years they run in enormous quantities. Their native stream is the Fraser River, ..."

3. Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of the State of Oregon by Oregon Supreme Court (1906)
"... but, in place of stipulating for Alaska salmon, they agreed that defendant would sell and deliver "2500 cases one-pound, tall, fancy sockeye salmon, ..."

4. Turning Up the Heat: How Global Warming Threatens Life in the Sea by Amy Mathews-Amos, Ewann Agenbroad Berntson (1999)
"Canadian and Japanese researchers who have reviewed 40 years of data on sockeye salmon throughout the North Pacific suggest it ..."

5. Western Canada by Paul-Eric Dumontier, Jennifer McMorran, Pierre Longnus (2004)
"Every four years, the dominant race of Adams sockeye salmon makes a run that dwarfs all others, and the river teems with around two million crimson fish. ..."

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