The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nerka \Ner"ka\, n. [Russ. niarka, prob. fr. native name.] (Zo["o]l.) The most important salmon of Alaska ( Oncorhinchus nerka), ascending in spring most rivers and lakes from Alaska to Oregon, Washington, and Idaho; -- called also red salmon, redfish, blueback, and sawqui.
WordNet
n. fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers [syn: sockeye, sockeye salmon]
small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning [syn: sockeye, sockeye salmon, blueback salmon, Onchorynchus nerka]
Usage examples of "red salmon".
He did as he was told, and the Siamese revived sufficiently to sit up and take a little nourishment in the form of a can of red salmon.
Sometimes they were satisfied with a can of red salmon garnished with a smoked oyster or a dab of caviar, preferably sturgeon.
A mountain range of dark amber towered in the distance, dominating the horizon and clashing with the red salmon sky.
Koko was back on top of the fireplace cube, hunched in his hungry pose, gazing down disapprovingly at the strangers in uniform, and probably wondering, Where's the red salmon?
The head was triangular, with eyes that looked like two clusters of pale red salmon eggs.
There were pepper nuts, curried vegetables, cheeses, grilled tombu, mounds of glittering red salmon roe and cultured meats.
Finally it fell into a lake where it was snapped up by a blue trout who was gulped down by a red salmon who in his turn was swallowed by a grey pike.