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hunchback salmon Obs. 
a species of Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, characterized by pinkish flesh.
See also: pink salmon
- 1835 (1945) . . . they were all the hunch back salmon and so poor and bad that but few of them were eatable.
- 1859 The hunchback salmon is regularly intermittent in its visits, only coming to fresh water every second season.
- 1835 (1945) . . . they were all the hunch back salmon and so poor and bad that but few of them were eatable.