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Noun sockeye has 2 senses
  1. red salmon, sockeye, sockeye salmon - fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers
    --1 is a kind of salmon
    --1 is a part of
     sockeye, sockeye salmon, red salmon, blueback salmon, Onchorynchus nerka
  2. sockeye, sockeye salmon, red salmon, blueback salmon, Onchorynchus nerka - small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning
    --2 is a kind of salmon
    --2 is a member of Onchorynchus, genus Onchorynchus
    --2 has parts: red salmon, sockeye, sockeye salmon
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