sockeye salmon
sockeye salmon · sockeye salmon
нерка
A salmon of the species Oncorhynchus nerkaA salmon of the species Oncorhynchus nerka.
Meaning
1 sensesA salmon of the species Oncorhynchus nerka.
не́ркаnérka
More definitions
- small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning
- fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers
Translations
3 languagesРусский
By meaning 1
Oncorhynchus nerka:
Forms
plural: sockeye salmon| Singular | sockeye salmon |
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irregular · Lesson
Synonyms
4 synonymsClose in meaning
- small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning:sockeyered salmonblueback salmonOncorhynchus nerka
- fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers:red salmonsockeye
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.