Sockeye or blueback salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka. Also pronounced kálxʷ. kaluxmí áčaš ‘evening primrose, Oenothera pallida‘. níix̣ iwá táani kálux ‘sockeye is good to can’. [NP q̓óyx̣c /q̓ʷ´yx̣c/.]
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