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Definition of Salmon
1. Adjective. Of orange tinged with pink.
2. Noun. Any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn.
Group relationships: Family Salmonidae, Salmonidae
Specialized synonyms: Blackfish, Redfish, Atlantic Salmon, Salmo Salar, Blueback Salmon, Oncorhynchus Nerka, Red Salmon, Sockeye, Sockeye Salmon, Chinook, Chinook Salmon, King Salmon, Oncorhynchus Tshawytscha, Quinnat Salmon, Chum, Chum Salmon, Oncorhynchus Keta, Blue Jack, Coho, Coho Salmon, Cohoe, Oncorhynchus Kisutch, Silver Salmon
3. Noun. A tributary of the Snake River in Idaho.
4. Noun. Flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae.
Specialized synonyms: Atlantic Salmon, Red Salmon, Sockeye, Sockeye Salmon, Chinook, Chinook Salmon, King Salmon, Coho, Coho Salmon, Cohoe, Silver Salmon, Smoked Salmon, Kippered Salmon
5. Noun. A pale pinkish orange color.
Definition of Salmon
1. n. Any one of several species of fishes of the genus Salmo and allied genera. The common salmon (Salmo salar) of Northern Europe and Eastern North America, and the California salmon, or quinnat, are the most important species. They are extensively preserved for food. See Quinnat.
2. a. Of a reddish yellow or orange color, like that of the flesh of the salmon.
Definition of Salmon
1. Proper noun. English surname ¹
2. Noun. (qualifier plural '''salmon''') One of several species of fish of the Salmonidae family. ¹
3. Noun. (qualifier plural '''salmons''') A yellowish pink colour, the colour of cooked salmon. ¹
4. Adjective. Having a yellowish pink colour. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Salmon
1. a food fish [n -S]
Medical Definition of Salmon
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Origin: OE. Saumoun, salmon, F. Saumon, fr. L. Salmo, salmonis perhaps from salire to leap. Cf. Sally, v.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Salmon
Literary usage of Salmon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1881)
"There are five species of salmon (Oncorhynchus) in the waters of the North ...
These species may be called the quinnat or king salmon, the blue-back salmon ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1897)
"Salmon had license from t he pope i June 1299 to contract a loan of thir- ,
thousand marks ... Salmon received restitution e temporalities on 19 Oct. (Cal. ..."
3. The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1859)
"The salmon is accounted the king of fresh-water fish ; and is ever bred in rivers
relating to the sea, yet so high or far from it, as admits of no tincture ..."
4. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1899)
"Inquiry (An) into the present state and means of improving the salmon ...
Reports and correspondence respecting [salmon] fish passes on the Shannon, ..."
5. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1898)
"PUGET SOUND Salmon. EL KELLOGG. The salmon is the king of our Northern fishes.
From my childhood. I have been familiar with him. In the ice-cold mountain ..."
6. The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, Edward Fitzgibbon (1854)
"OBSERVATIONS ON THE Salmon ; WITH DIRECTIONS HOW TO FISH FOR HIM. Pise. The salmon
is accounted the king of fresh-water fish; and is ever bred in rivers ..."
7. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1894)
"Does the salmon seize the fly for food 1 2. What is the natural food of the ...
Does the salmon possess the se'nse of colour 1 Does the salmon seize the fly ..."