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Webster 1913 Edition

Blueback

Blue′backˊ

,

Noun.

(Zool.)

(a)

A trout (

Salmo oquassa

) inhabiting some of the lakes of Maine.

(b)

A salmon (

Oncorhynchus nerka

) of the Columbia River and northward.

(c)

An American river herring (

Clupea æstivalis

), closely allied to the alewife.