kype

English

Alternative spellings

kipe

Etymology

From Scots kip, kipp (“something beaked or hooked”); perhaps related to Middle Low German kippe (“point, tip”).

Noun

kype (plural kypes)

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

See also

Oncorhynchus, a genus named for its having kypes

References

“kype” in the Collins English Dictionary, Glasgow: HarperCollins Publishers.
“kype” (US) / “kype” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

Pyke, pyke

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