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blueback

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noun bluebacks

A lake trout (Salmo oquassa).
A salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka).
A blueback herring or blueback shad (Alosa aestivalis, syn. Clupea aestivalis) similar to the alewife.
A Beardslee trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss irideus f. beardsleei).
The blueback salmon

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@misc{blueback_2026,
  title = {blueback},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/blueback},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}