Oncorhynchus

noun

Pacific salmon including sockeye salmon; chinook salmon; chum salmon; coho salmon

• Syn: ↑genus Oncorhynchus

• Hypernyms: ↑fish genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Salmonidae, ↑family Salmonidae

• Member Meronyms:

↑sockeye, ↑sockeye salmon, ↑red salmon, ↑blueback salmon, ↑Oncorhynchus nerka, ↑chinook, ↑chinook salmon, ↑king salmon, ↑quinnat salmon, ↑Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, ↑chum salmon, ↑chum, ↑Oncorhynchus keta, ↑coho, ↑cohoe, ↑coho salmon, ↑blue jack, ↑silver salmon, ↑Oncorhynchus kisutch

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\\ˌäŋkōˈriŋkəs\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from onc- + -rhynchus

: a genus of salmons that are related to those of the genus Salmo but have a greater number of anal rays, branchiostegals, pyloric caeca, and gill rakers and that include commercially important fishes of the north Pacific and of the coastal streams of both America and Asia

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Oncorhynchus /ong-kə-ringˈkəs/

noun

A N Pacific genus of salmon

ORIGIN: Gr onkos hook, and rhynchos beak