Kype

Word KYPE
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Definitions and meanings of "Kype"

What do we mean by kype?

The hook that develops in the lower jaw of an adult male salmon when it is ready to spawn.

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The word "kype" in example sentences

The three species pictured above top to bottom: pink salmon, sockeye salmon, and redband steelhead are all male fish showing the elongated upper and lower jaws, called kype. ❋ Robert J. Behnke (2002)

This means that at various stages of life they exhibit different physical characteristsics; for example, the hooked jaws that Suckley observed, known as kype, occur only in spawning male salmon. ❋ Robert J. Behnke (2002)

In the Atheism and Evolution articles, there's some odd "kype" coding in some recent references. ❋ Conservative (2010)

Since the kype of salmon keeps their mouth open the line drifts in, and bingo you feel the fish and line away. ❋ Tim Romano (2007)

It was the exclamation point to a scene of utter Alaskan essence: a kype-jawed Arctic char on the line, grizzly prints in the sand, Dall sheep on the cliffs above, and a bush plane roaring off a gravel-bar airstrip, leaving us blissfully behind. ❋ Unknown (2004)

When Wulff guided Curt Gowdy into the Minipi River basin to film a segment of The American Sportsman, trout anglers in the Lower 48 almost swallowed their teeth at the sight of kype-jawed brookies the size of an overnight bag. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Some kid kype it from their Dad's collection and spend it, thinking it's only worth a nickel? ❋ Grouse (2003)

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