King-of-the-salmon
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Any of species Trachipterus altivelis (syn, Trachipterus rex-salmonorum), of family Trachipteridae of ribbonfishes, of the eastern Pacific.
Etymology
From the legends of the Makah people, which suggest that this fish guides the salmon each year to their spawning grounds.
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