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bluebacks

bluebacks is the plural of blueback.

Meaning of blueback

Noun

blueback (plural bluebacks)

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

Questions about bluebacks

What is bluebacks the plural of?
Bluebacks is the plural of blueback.

Words near bluebacks in the dictionary

  1. blue-winged teals
  2. BlueAnon
  3. blueb
  4. blueback
  5. blueback salmon
  6. bluebacks
  7. blueball
  8. blueballed
  9. blueballing
  10. blueballs
  11. bluebeard

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