Salmon /(săm"ŭn)/

Salm·on

Salmon

n.

pl. Salmons, Salmon ((-ŭnz))

  1. 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. (Zool.)
  2. A reddish yellow or orange color, like the flesh of the salmon.

Phrases & Compounds
Black 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.
Salmon berry
a large red raspberry growing from Alaska to California, the fruit of the Rubus Nutkanus.
Salmon killer
a stickleback (Gasterosteus cataphractus) of Western North America and Northern Asia.
Salmon ladder
See Fish ladder, under Fish.
Salmon peel
a young salmon.
Salmon pipe
a certain device for catching salmon.
Salmon trout
The European sea trout (Salmo trutta). It resembles the salmon, but is smaller, and has smaller and more numerous scales.

Salmon

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