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kokanee [< Interior Salish kikinee]

• n. a dwarf landlocked salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka kennerlyi, native to southern British Columbia.

  See also: kickininee  little red fish  redfish (def. 1)  silver trout (def. 2)  

  • 1937  The Kokanee or "Silver Trout," which is in reality a landlocked Sockeye salmon abounds in the larger lakes of the district. . . .
  • 1964  Officials say there isn't enough experience on record to predict for certain the reaction of kokanee to water the size of the Great Lakes.
  • 1966  . . . here live some of the largest rainbow trout in the world . . . along with the kokanee on which the rainbows feed themselves to their fine, fat, fit condition.