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pink salmon 
a species of Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, characterized by pinkish flesh.
See also: hone hook-nosed trout hunchback salmon pink humpback salmon
- 1952 The humpback or pink salmon weighs, on the average, four pounds. Most of these fish are canned . . . but they are not so highly prized as the sockeye because of their less appealing colour.
- 1963 The cutthroats could start feeding on the first hatches of pink salmon fry in the sloughs and lower reaches of the rivers.
- 1952 The humpback or pink salmon weighs, on the average, four pounds. Most of these fish are canned . . . but they are not so highly prized as the sockeye because of their less appealing colour.