salmon

salm·on  (smn)

n. pl. salmon or salm·ons

1. Any of various large food and game fishes of the genera Salmo and Oncorhynchus, of northern waters, having delicate pinkish flesh and characteristically swimming from salt to fresh water to spawn.

2. A moderate, light, or strong yellowish pink to a moderate reddish orange or light orange.

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[Middle English samoun, from Old French saumon, from Latin salm, salmn-; see sel- in Indo-European roots.]

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salmon

Noun

pl -ons or -on a large pink-fleshed fish which is highly valued for food and sport: salmon live in the sea but return to fresh water to spawn [Latin salmo]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	salmon - any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn food fish - any fish used for food by human beings family Salmonidae, Salmonidae - salmon and trout salmonid - soft-finned fishes of cold and temperate waters blackfish - female salmon that has recently spawned redfish - male salmon that has recently spawned Salmo salar, Atlantic salmon - found in northern coastal Atlantic waters or tributaries; adults do not die after spawning 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 Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, quinnat salmon, chinook salmon, king salmon, chinook - large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning chum salmon, Oncorhynchus keta, chum - a large Pacific salmon with small spots on its back; an important food fish blue jack, Oncorhynchus kisutch, silver salmon, coho, coho salmon, cohoe - small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes salmon - flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae
	2.	Salmon - a tributary of the Snake River in Idaho Salmon River Gem State, ID, Idaho - a state in the Rocky Mountains
	3.	salmon - flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae salmon - any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn fish - the flesh of fish used as food; "in Japan most fish is eaten raw"; "after the scare about foot-and-mouth disease a lot of people started eating fish instead of meat"; "they have a chef who specializes in fish" Atlantic salmon - fatty pink flesh of fish from northern coastal Atlantic; usually marketed fresh red salmon, sockeye, sockeye salmon - fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers chinook salmon, king salmon, chinook - pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon coho, coho salmon, cohoe, silver salmon - fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes smoked salmon - salmon cured by smoking kippered salmon - salted and smoked salmon
	4.	salmon - a pale pinkish orange color chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour - a color that has hue
Adj.	1.	salmon - of orange tinged with pink pink-orange, pinkish-orange chromatic - being or having or characterized by hue

Translations

salmon [ˈsæmən] n (pl inv) → salmón m

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salmon [ˈsæmən] n (pl inv) → saumon m

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salmon [ˈsæmən] n inv → Lachs m

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salmon [ˈsæmən] n (pl inv) → salmone m

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salmon

n salmon [ˈsӕmən]

a type of large fish with orange-pink flesh. salm سَمَك سُلَيْمان сьомга losos laks der Lachs σολομός salmón lõhe ماهي آزاد lohi saumon סַלמוֹן सामन, मृदुपक्षा losos lazac ikan salem lax salmone 鮭 연어 lašiša lasis ikan salmon zalm laks łosoś salmão somon лосось losos losos losos lax ปลาแซลมอน som/somon balığı 大麻哈魚, 鮭魚 лосось, сьомга جنس سالمو کے خاندان کی نقل مکانی کرنے والی سمندری مچھلی cá hồi 大麻哈鱼, 鲑鱼