SALMON

salmon, pinkish-orange, pink-orange

(adjective) of orange tinged with pink

salmon

(noun) any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn

salmon

(noun) a pale pinkish orange color

salmon

(noun) flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae

Salmon, Salmon River

(noun) a tributary of the Snake River in Idaho

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

salmon (plural salmon)

One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers to spawn.

Synonym: lax

(plural salmons) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.

Synonym: salmon pink

The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.

(Cockney rhyming slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)

Adjective

salmon (not comparable)

Having a pale pinkish-orange colour.

Verb

salmon (third-person singular simple present salmons, present participle salmoning, simple past and past participle salmoned)

(slang, intransitive) To ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street.

Anagrams

• Almons, Lamson, Lomans, Malson, Sloman, monals

Etymology

Proper noun

Salmon

A surname.

A city in Lemhi County, Idaho, situated on the Salmon River, after which it was probably named.

Anagrams

• Almons, Lamson, Lomans, Malson, Sloman, monals

Source: Wiktionary

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Salm"on, n.; pl. Salmons or (collectively) Salmon. Etym: [OE. saumoun, salmon, F. saumon, fr. L. salmo, salmonis perhaps from salire to leap. Cf. Sally, v.]

1. (Zoöl.)

Definition: 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.

Note: The salmons ascend rivers and penetrate to their head streams to spawn. They are remarkably strong fishes, and will even leap over considerable falls which lie in the way of their progress. The common salmon has been known to grow to the weight of seventy-five pounds; more generally it is from fifteen to twenty-five pounds. Young salmon are called parr, peal, smolt, and grilse. Among the true salmons are: Black salmon, or Lake salmon, the namaycush.

– Dog salmon, a salmon of Western North America (Oncorhynchus keta).

– Humpbacked salmon, a Pacific-coast salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha).

– King salmon, the quinnat.

– Landlocked salmon, a variety of the common salmon (var. Sebago), long confined in certain lakes in consequence of obstructions that prevented it from returning to the sea. This last is called also dwarf salmon. Among fishes of other families which are locally and erroneously called salmon are: the pike perch, called jack salmon; the spotted, or southern, squeteague; the cabrilla, called kelp salmon; young pollock, called sea salmon; and the California yellowtail.

2. A reddish yellow or orange color, like the flesh of the salmon. Salmon berry (Bot.), a large red raspberry growing from Alaska to California, the fruit of the Rubus Nutkanus.

– Salmon killer (Zoöl.), a stickleback (Gasterosteus cataphractus) of Western North America and Northern Asia.

– Salmon ladder, salmon stair. See Fish ladder, under Fish.

– Salmon peel, a young salmon.

– Salmon pipe, a certain device for catching salmon. Crabb.

– Salmon trout. (Zoöl.) (a) The European sea trout (Salmo trutta). It resembles the salmon, but is smaller, and has smaller and more numerous scales. (b) The American namaycush. (c) A name that is also applied locally to the adult black spotted trout (Salmo purpuratus), and to the steel head and other large trout of the Pacific coast.

Salm"on, a.

Definition: Of a reddish yellow or orange color, like that of the flesh of the salmon.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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