kype

English

Alternative forms

• kipe

Etymology

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

Noun

kype (plural kypes)

1. 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 Collins English Dictionary.
• “kype”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• Pyke, pyke