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cohos

Variant of coho

noun pl. coho or cohos

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

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

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