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coho (kō′hō′)

noun pl. coho -·ho′ or cohos -·hos′

a comparatively small salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), native to the N Pacific Ocean and now widely introduced as a game fish into fresh waters of the N U.S.
also coho salmon

Etymology: earlier co-hue, prob. < Salish (Chilliwack dial.) kwúhw-uth

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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