cisco

The definition of a cisco is a freshwater fish in the genus Coregonus.

(noun)

An example of a cisco is a trout common to the cold lakes in Canada and the northeastern United States.

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See cisco in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun pl. cisco, ciscoes, ciscos

any of various trouts (esp. genus Coregonus) found in the colder lakes of the NE U.S. and of Canada

Origin: < CdnFr ciscovette < Algonquian

See cisco in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun pl. cis·coes or cis·cos
Any of several North American freshwater fishes of the genus Coregonus or Leucichthys, related to and resembling the whitefish.

Origin:

Origin: From Canadian French ciscoette

Origin: , from Ojibwa bemidewiskawed, the (fish) with oily skin

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