gorbuschan.
/ɡɔːˈbʊʃə/ The humpback salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > member of genus Oncorhyncus (chinook)
red fish1763
spring salmon1776
gorbuscha1784
keta1824
quinnat1829
Chinook salmon1851
coho1869
king salmon1871
silver trout1873
kokanee1875
salmon1884
sockeye1888
chisel-mouth1889
pink salmon1899
spring1900
tyee1902
pink1905
blackmouth1906
chum1908
greenback cut-throat1989
1784 T. Pennant Introd. Arctic Zool. I. Introd. p. cxxv The Gorbuscha, or Hunch-back, arrives at the same time with the last [sc. the keta salmon].
1884 D. S. Jordan in G. B. Goode Nat. Hist. Aquatic Animals iii. 476 This species is known to the Russians still..by the name of ‘Gorbuscha’.
1891 Fur, Fin & Feather Mar. 151 The salmon most plentiful in the Alaska waters is known as the humpback or garbusche.
1960 Guardian 15 Nov. 6/7 Soviet scientists had been transporting the eggs of gorbuscha from Sakhalin Island..to the..rivers of the Kola Peninsula.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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