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shee(fish)
[? < Athapaskan (Chipewyan)]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a fresh-water food fish, Stenodus mackenzii, native to the rivers and lakes of the Yukon and the Northwest Territories, having pinkish flesh when prime and averaging about twelve pounds, though occasionally running as high as forty.
See: inconnu
Quotations
1795
Their flesh, though delicately white, is very soft, and has so rank a taste, that many of the Indians, except they are in absolute want, will not eat it. The Northern Indians call this fish Shees.
1959
Within minutes, I had three shee fish, each about two feet long, flopping on the bank.