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BLUE JACK

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes

Synonyms:

blue jack; coho; coho salmon; cohoe; Oncorhynchus kisutch; silver salmon

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("blue jack" is a kind of...):

salmon (any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn)

Meronyms (parts of "blue jack"):

coho; coho salmon; cohoe; silver salmon (fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes)

Holonyms ("blue jack" is a member of...):

genus Oncorhynchus; Oncorhynchus (Pacific salmon including sockeye salmon; chinook salmon; chum salmon; coho salmon)

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