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inconnu [< Cdn F < F "unknown"]

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 also: connie poisson inconnu shee(fish) unknown fish
- 1806 (1960) The Indians also state that there are plenty white fish unconu some trout carp Jub, &c. in the fall of the year.
- 1844 (1955) I tried the Inconnu there, but it is far inferior to the Trout.
- 1952 One of the species found in the Mackenzie River is the distinctive "coney", or inconnu, so named by Alexander Mackenzie, because the fish was not known in other parts of Canada.
- 1966 Lake trout up to forty pounds, northern pike, whitefish, inconnu and other species are found in the waters of the Yukon river.