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salmon definition

salmon (sam′ən)

noun pl. salmon -·on or salmons -·ons

  1. any of several salmonoid food and game fishes (esp. genera Oncorhynchus and Salmo) of the Northern Hemisphere, with silver scales and flesh that is yellowish pink to pale red when cooked: they usually live in salt water and spawn in fresh water
  2. yellowish pink or pale red
    also salmon pink

Etymology: ME salmoun < MFr < OFr saumon < L salmo (gen. salmonis) < ?

Salmon definition

Salmon (sam′ən)

river in central Ida., flowing into the Snake River: 420 mi (676 km)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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