| salmon | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. salmon | any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn. |
| ~ food fish | any fish used for food by human beings. |
| ~ family salmonidae, salmonidae | salmon and trout. |
| ~ salmonid | soft-finned fishes of cold and temperate waters. |
| ~ blackfish | female salmon that has recently spawned. |
| ~ redfish | male salmon that has recently spawned. |
| ~ salmo salar, atlantic salmon | found in northern coastal Atlantic waters or tributaries; adults do not die after spawning. |
| ~ blueback salmon, oncorhynchus nerka, 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, quinnat salmon, chinook salmon, king salmon, chinook | large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning. |
| ~ chum salmon, oncorhynchus keta, chum | a large Pacific salmon with small spots on its back; an important food fish. |
| ~ blue jack, oncorhynchus kisutch, coho, coho salmon, cohoe, silver salmon | small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes. |
| ~ salmon | flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae. |
| n. (object) | 2. salmon, salmon river | a tributary of the Snake River in Idaho. |
| ~ gem state, id, idaho | a state in the Rocky Mountains. |
| ~ river | a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek).; "the river was navigable for 50 miles" |
| n. (food) | 3. salmon | flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae. |
| ~ salmon | any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn. |
| ~ fish | the flesh of fish used as food.; "in Japan most fish is eaten raw"; "after the scare about foot-and-mouth disease a lot of people started eating fish instead of meat"; "they have a chef who specializes in fish" |
| ~ atlantic salmon | 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 salmon, king salmon, chinook | 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. |
| n. (attribute) | 4. salmon | a pale pinkish orange color. |
| ~ chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour | a color that has hue. |
| adj. | 5. pink-orange, pinkish-orange, salmon | of orange tinged with pink. |
| ~ chromatic | being or having or characterized by hue. |
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