plural cohos or coho
: a rather small Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) that has light-colored flesh and is native to both coasts of the North Pacific and is stocked in the Great Lakes
called also coho salmon, silver salmon
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The Yurok Tribe and environmental groups are hoping to restore river health and coho salmon after they were impeded for almost a century.
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Ari Plachta, Sacramento Bee, 28 Feb. 2025
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources recently collected nearly 6.5 million wild coho salmon eggs in less than three weeks.
—Elissa Robinson, Detroit Free Press, 20 Dec. 2024
The logging will periodically cloud the waters of Yellow Creek, where threatened Oregon Coast coho salmon go to spawn.
—April Ehrlich, ProPublica, 12 Nov. 2024
Soto watched as a group of men wearing wetsuits, masks and snorkels swam in Wooley Creek, a tributary of the Salmon River, searching in the clear water for juvenile chinook and coho salmon.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
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Ari Plachta, Sacramento Bee, 28 Feb. 2025
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources recently collected nearly 6.5 million wild coho salmon eggs in less than three weeks.
—Elissa Robinson, Detroit Free Press, 20 Dec. 2024
The logging will periodically cloud the waters of Yellow Creek, where threatened Oregon Coast coho salmon go to spawn.
—April Ehrlich, ProPublica, 12 Nov. 2024
Soto watched as a group of men wearing wetsuits, masks and snorkels swam in Wooley Creek, a tributary of the Salmon River, searching in the clear water for juvenile chinook and coho salmon.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
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“Coho.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coho. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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