salmon

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: salmon

1	n	any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn
2	adj n	of orange tinged with pink a pale pinkish orange color

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: salmon

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female salmon that has recently spawned; redfish
male salmon that has recently spawned; Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar
found in northern coastal Atlantic waters or tributaries; adults do not die after spawning; Oncorhynchus nerka, blueback salmon, 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, chinook, chinook salmon, king salmon, quinnat salmon
large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning; Oncorhynchus keta, chum, chum salmon
a large Pacific salmon with small spots on its back; an important food fish; Oncorhynchus kisutch, blue jack, coho, coho salmon, cohoe, silver salmon
small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes; lake salmon, landlocked salmon
Atlantic salmon confined to lakes of New England and southeastern Canada

Type of:: food fish
any fish used for food by human beings; salmonid
soft-finned fishes of cold and temperate waters

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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, chinook salmon, king salmon
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; lox
brine-cured salmon that is lightly smoked

Type of:: chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
a color that has hue

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