keta

[ kee-tuh ]

noun

1. chum salmon.

Word History and Origins

Origin of keta¹

1900–05; < Russian kéta, earlier ketá < Evenki (eastern dialects) kēta, or < cognates in other Tungusic languages

Example Sentences

Sharp waves and splashes and two rows of foam indicated the approaching advance guard of the keta.

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He had asked the commander of my brother's garrison to permit Dimitri to return home to help with the keta fishing!

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Synopsis of biological data on the chum salmon, Oncorhynchus keta (Walbaum) 1792.

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A male slave is called a Keta, and costs about thirty Mohurs.

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At last the eighty Princes, who had left their much-wronged brother far behind, arrived at Cape Keta.

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