BLUEBACK SALMON

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Meaning:

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

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("blueback salmon" 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 "blueback salmon"):

red salmon; sockeye; sockeye salmon (fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers)

Holonyms ("blueback salmon" is a member of...):

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