cisco

See also: Cisco

English

Etymology

From French ciscoette (“siscowet”), from Ojibwe siscowet (“cooks itself”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪskəʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɪskəʊ

Noun

cisco (plural ciscos or ciscoes)

1. Any North American freshwater fish of certain species of the genus Coregonus that live in cold-water lakes.

Derived terms

• Arctic cisco (Coregonus autumnalis)
• Bering cisco (Coregonus laurettae)
• blackfin cisco (Coregonus nigripinnis)
• deepwater cisco (Coregonus johannae)
• European cisco (Coregonus albula, Coregonus trybomi, Coregonus lucinensis, "Coregonus vandesius")
• lake cisco, northern cisco, lake herring (Coregonus artedi)
• least cisco (Coregonus sardinella)
• longjaw cisco (Coregonus alpenae)
• sardine cisco (Coregonus sardinella)
• shortjaw cisco (Coregonus zenithicus)
• shortnose cisco (Coregonus reighardi)
• Stechlin cisco (Coregonus fontanae)

Translations

fish

Armenian: սիգ (hy) (sig) Bulgarian: рипус m (ripus), сиг m (sig) Finnish: siika (fi), amerikanmuikku Greek: κορηγώνιος m (korigónios) Russian: сиг (ru) m (sig) Swedish: sik (sv) c

References

• cisco (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Coregonus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Coregonus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• “cisco”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “cisco”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• The Great Minnesota Fish Book

Anagrams

• Socci