salmon
salmon (sam′ən)
noun pl. -·on or -·ons
- 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
- yellowish pink or pale red
Etymology: ME salmoun < MFr < OFr saumon < L salmo (gen. salmonis) < ?
Salmon (sam′ən)
river in central Ida., flowing into the Snake River: 420 mi (676 km)
salmon
n.
A fish].
Varieties of salmon include: Atlantic, Pacific, Alaskan, quinnat, chinook, redback, blueback, humpback, silver, coho, sockeye, chum, pink, king, dog; salmon trout, steelhead trout, red fish.
The flesh of salmon, sense 1, used as food
salmon steak, salmon filet, smoked salmon, kippered salmon, canned salmon, salmon salad, lox, goldfish*, deep-sea turkey*; see also food.
Converse of object
- smoke: Our peat smoked salmon is made from only the finest Scottish salmon.
- poach: For example why not replace the Sunday roast with poached salmon instead.
- farm: Scottish farmed salmon are firm with a fibrous to smooth to even texture.
- spawn: In the winter, lucky riders in the Squamish area will glimpse majestic eagles feeding on the spawning salmon.
- catch: Also, to catch a salmon, first of all they have to be there.
- leap: He talked of trout and Tweed, Tay and Teviot, Highland lochs and leaping salmon.
Adjective modifier
- Atlantic: The parties ' combined share of supply of farmed Atlantic salmon in the UK is approximately 42 per cent by volume.
- grilled: It's the perfect accompaniment to grilled fresh salmon for a special meal.
- tinned: Did you know that tinned salmon is also a source of calcium?
- wild: Wild salmon migrate over hundreds of miles from the rivers where they are spawned to the open sea.
- home-smoked: Many of the ingredients are grown locally, including plums from the hotel's own orchard and home-smoked salmon.
- canned: Canned salmon comes from wild, unfarmed sea stocks.
Modifies a noun
- filet: They accuse Chile alone of dumping 60,000 tons of frozen salmon filets onto the European market.
- fishing: Salmon fishing only realy gets started from mid June on.
- fishery: We are somewhat confused by the comment that the salmon fisheries can " raise most money for management " .
- fishcake: Your salmon fishcakes are on the menu for this week.
- steak: Sprinkle salmon steaks with equal amounts of rub, pressing rub into surface of both sides.
- farming: By far the biggest impact of this would affect salmon farming.
Noun used with modifier
He that steals a cow from a poor widow, or a stirk from a cottar, is a thief; he that lifts a drove from a Sassenach laird, is a gentleman-drover. And, besides, to take a tree from the forest, a salmon from the river, a deer from the hill, or a cow from a Lowland strath, is what no Highlander need ever think shame upon.
The Salmon is the most stately fish that any man may angle to in fresh water.
I'll love you dear, I'll love you Till China and Africa meet And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street, I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven starsgo squawking Like geese about the sky.
Browse dictionary entries near salmon
- salmi
- salmagundi
- Sally Lunn
- sally
- Sallust
- sallow
- Sallie Mae
- sallet
- sallenders
- salle
- salmon trout
- salmonberry
- salmonella
- salmonellosis
- salmonid
- salmonoid
- Salome
- Salomon
- salon
- Salonika
