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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Any North American freshwater fish of certain species of the genus Coregonus that live in cold-water lakes.
2. 2
   important food fish of cold deep lakes of North America wordnet
3. 3
   cold-water fish caught in Lake Superior and northward wordnet

Proper Noun

1. 1
   Cisco Systems, Inc., a manufacturer of routers, switches, and other networking and communications equipment.

Synonyms

All synonyms

coregonus artedifishlake herringlake herringotsego bassotsego bass

Etymology

Etymology 1

From French ciscoette (“siscowet”), from Ojibwe siscowet (“cooks itself”).

Etymology 2

Derived from San Francisco.

Related phrases

Arctic ciscoBering ciscoEuropean ciscoStechlin ciscoblackfin ciscodeepwater ciscolake ciscolake herringleast ciscolongjaw cisconorthern ciscosardine cisco

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