Lexic.us

Definition of Red salmon

1. Noun. Fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers.

2. Noun. Small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Red Salmon

red reflex red region red ribbon red ribbons red rice red ring red ring of death red ringed red ringing red rings

red rings of death red rocket red rockets red rockfish red route red salmon (current term) red sandalwood red sanders red sanderswood red saunders

red scare red setter red shift red shrubby penstemon red silk-cotton tree red silk cotton red silver fir red siskin red slender loris red snapper

Literary usage of Red salmon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Pacific Monthly by William Bittle Wells, Lute Pease, Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1906)
"The names Blueback and red salmon are both appropriate, according to the season. The red salmon spawns only in streams which flow into lakes. ..."

2. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"This feature distinguishes the species readily from the red salmon. In color it is silvery in spring, greenish above, and with a few faint black spots on ..."

3. A Guide to the Study of Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1905)
"This feature distinguishes the species readily from the red salmon. In color it is silvery in spring, greenish above, and with a few faint black spots on ..."

4. Fish Stories Alleged and Experienced: With a Little History Natural and by Charles Frederick Holder, David Starr Jordan (1909)
"The names blueback and red salmon are both appropriate, according to the season. The red salmon spawns only in streams which flow into lakes. ..."

5. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"It is known in d>fl 'rent regions as blueback, redfish, red salmon, Fraser River salmon, and sock-eye or saw-qui. It ranks next to the chinook in commercial ..."

6. The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor by David Starr Jordan (1922)
"Both King Salmon and red salmon go up the Columbia to the Bitter Root ... red salmon, as already noted, spawn only above a lake; as a matter of fact, also, ..."

7. The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor by David Starr Jordan (1922)
"Both King Salmon and red salmon go up the Columbia to the Bitter Root ... red salmon, as already noted, spawn only above a lake; as a matter of fact, also, ..."

8. Greenhouse and Stove Plants, Flowering and Fine-leaved, Palms, Ferns, and by Thomas Baines (1885)
"Red, salmon tinted. Duke of Edinburgh. Variegated, white and green. Gathorne Hardy. Orange-scarlet. General Forre. Orange-salmon ; double. Henry Beurier. ..."

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