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.
Other meanings
A meal or dish made from this fish.
plural salmons A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.
A kind of
- food fish
Kinds of salmon
- red salmon
- blue jack
Related words
- Atlantic salmon
- beaked salmon
- chinook salmon
- chum salmon
- coho salmon
- Danube salmon
- dog salmon
- humpback salmon
Word history
From Latin "salmo" (salmō, salmōn-).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “salmon” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.