A medium-sized Pacific salmon with silvery sides and dark back that is popular for fishing and eating.
From a Salish (Native American) language of the Pacific Northwest, borrowed into English in the 19th century. The word may be related to similar names for salmon in various Indigenous languages of the region.
The coho salmon has an amazing lifecycle where it spends its youth in freshwater streams, migrates to the ocean to grow, then returns to its birthplace to spawn—using Earth's magnetic field to navigate thousands of miles home.
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