Home › Words › B › bluebackbluebackblueback means any of several fish:; A lake trout (Salmo oquassa).EtymologyFrom blue + back.nounAny of several fish:; A lake trout (Salmo oquassa).Any of several fish:; A salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka).Any of several fish:; A blueback herring or blueback shad (Alosa aestivalis, syn. Clupea aestivalis) similar to the alewife.Any of several fish:; A Beardslee trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss irideus f. beardsleei).The blueback salmonDefinitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.blacktail 61% match — A fish: the ruffe or pope (Gymnocephalus cernua) vs blueback →splake 60% match — A hybrid fish derived from a male brook trout and a female lake trout. vs blueback →bluestripe 58% match — Any of various fishes or other animals bearing a blue stripe. vs blueback →brookie 58% match — A brook trout. vs blueback →bluegill 58% match — Any of the species Lepomis macrochirus of North American sunfish. vs blueback →brookinaw 57% match — A hybrid fish derived from a male lake trout and a female brook trout. vs blueback →blacksmelt 57% match — Any of various ray-finned fish in the genus Bathylagus. vs blueback →quillback 57% match — Carpiodes cyprinus, a freshwater fish of the sucker family with a long filament that extends back from the dorsal fin, native to the eastern and central United States. vs blueback →