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hook-nosed trout
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n. — Obs.
a species of Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, characterized by pinkish flesh.
See: pink salmon
Quotations
1852
Salmon and hook-nosed trout . . . ascend the river, but are not found in the Mackenzie, or rivers falling into the Arctic Sea.