red salmon

red salmon

n.

See sockeye salmon.

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red salmon

n

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any salmon having reddish flesh, esp the sockeye salmon

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) the flesh of such a fish, esp canned

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	red salmon - fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers sockeye, sockeye salmon blueback salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka, red salmon, sockeye, sockeye salmon - small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning salmon - flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae
	2.	red salmon - small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning blueback salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka, sockeye, sockeye salmon salmon - any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn genus Oncorhynchus, Oncorhynchus - Pacific salmon including sockeye salmon; chinook salmon; chum salmon; coho salmon red salmon, sockeye, sockeye salmon - fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers