Hoh

[ hoh ]

noun

, plural Hoh

1. Also called Chal·at’ [chah-, laht]. a member of an Indigenous people of northwestern Washington State originally speaking Quinault but gradually, through intermarriage, coming to speak Quileute.
2. a river flowing from Mount Olympus through the Olympic Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. 56 miles (90 km) long.

adjective

1. of or relating to the Hoh.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Hoh¹

First recorded in 1865–70; from Quinault Hoxw, Húxw, the name of the river

Example Sentences

Other projects across the state include more than $20 million for Yakama Nation’s efforts to restore floodplains and fish passages and $8.4 million for Trout Unlimited’s Olympic Peninsula Coldwater Connection Campaign, a fish passage project in the Hoh, Queets-Quinault and Quillayute watersheds.

From Seattle Times

As an example, when the Zonang Lake in Hoh Xil Nature Reserve burst its banks in 2011, the Tibetan Antelope found their migration route blocked.

From Science Daily

"We are still seeing this DDT contamination in deep-sea organisms and ocean sediments more than 50 years after they were dumped there," said Hoh.

From Science Daily

Beginning in 2021, Aluwihare, study co-author Eunha Hoh of SDSU, and other collaborators began a series of research efforts to work on two key questions: Are the DDT-related chemicals lurking on the seafloor near Dumpsite 2 being stirred up and ingested by marine life in the deep?

From Science Daily

Typically, testing for DDT looks for four to eight chemicals, but a 2016 paper co-authored by Hoh and Aluwihare identified 45 DDT-related chemicals in the blubber of dolphins from off the coast of Southern California.

From Science Daily