sockeye   (TTS Sound)

The noun sockeye has 2 senses

• red salmon, sockeye, sockeye salmon -- (fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers)


• sockeye, sockeye salmon, red salmon, blueback salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka -- (small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning)