kokanees

Variant of kokanee

kokanee definition

ko·kanee (kō kan′ē)

noun pl. kokanees -·ees or kokanee -·ee

any landlocked population of the sockeye salmon of W North America

Etymology: prob. after Kokanee Creek, a stream in British Columbia

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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