sockeye salmon

Noun sockeye salmon has 2 senses

• sockeye salmon(n = noun.food) red salmon, sockeye - fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers;
is a part of blueback salmon, oncorhynchus nerka, red salmon, sockeye, sockeye salmon
is a kind of salmon

• sockeye salmon(n = noun.animal) blueback salmon, oncorhynchus nerka, red salmon, sockeye - small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning;
is a kind of salmon
is a member of genus oncorhynchus, oncorhynchus
has parts: red salmon, sockeye, sockeye salmon