salmon : Idioms & Phrases

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atlantic salmon

  • noun fatty pink flesh of fish from northern coastal Atlantic; usually marketed fresh
  • noun found in northern coastal Atlantic waters or tributaries; adults do not die after spawning
    Salmo salar.
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beaked salmon

  • noun fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand
    Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus; sandfish.
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blueback salmon

  • noun small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning
    sockeye; red salmon; blueback salmon; Oncorhynchus nerka.
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chinook salmon

  • noun pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon
    chinook; chinook salmon.
  • noun large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning
    king salmon; chinook; Oncorhynchus tshawytscha; chinook salmon.
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chum salmon

  • noun a large Pacific salmon with small spots on its back; an important food fish
    chum; Oncorhynchus keta.
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coho salmon

  • noun fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes
    cohoe; coho salmon; coho.
  • noun small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes
    cohoe; coho; Oncorhynchus kisutch; coho salmon; blue jack.
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dawson river salmon

  • noun a species of large fish found in Australian rivers
    spotted barramundi; Australian arowana; saratoga; Scleropages leichardti; spotted bonytongue.
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Dog salmon

  • (Zoöl.), a salmon of northwest America and northern Asia; the gorbuscha; called also holia, and hone.
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Jack salmon

  • noun pike-like freshwater perches
    walleyed pike; dory; walleye; Stizostedion vitreum.
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  • (Zoöl.), the wall-eyed pike, or glasseye.
Webster 1913

Kelp salmon

  • (Zoöl.), a serranoid food fish (Serranus clathratus) of California. See Cabrilla.
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King salmon

  • noun pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon
    chinook; chinook salmon.
  • noun large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning
    king salmon; chinook; Oncorhynchus tshawytscha; chinook salmon.
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  • (Zoöl.), the quinnat. See Quinnat.
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kippered salmon

  • noun salted and smoked salmon
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lake salmon

  • noun Atlantic salmon confined to lakes of New England and southeastern Canada
    lake salmon.
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landlocked salmon

  • noun Atlantic salmon confined to lakes of New England and southeastern Canada
    lake salmon.
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nova salmon

  • noun brine-cured salmon that is less salty than most; sometimes sugar is also used in the curing
    Nova salmon; Nova Scotia lox; Nova lox; Nova Scotia salmon.
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nova scotia salmon

  • noun brine-cured salmon that is less salty than most; sometimes sugar is also used in the curing
    Nova salmon; Nova Scotia lox; Nova lox; Nova Scotia salmon.
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nova style salmon

  • noun brine-cured salmon that is less salty than most; sometimes sugar is also used in the curing
    Nova salmon; Nova Scotia lox; Nova lox; Nova Scotia salmon.
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quinnat salmon

  • noun large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning
    king salmon; chinook; Oncorhynchus tshawytscha; chinook salmon.
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red salmon

  • noun fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers
    red salmon; sockeye.
  • noun small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning
    sockeye; red salmon; blueback salmon; Oncorhynchus nerka.
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rock salmon

  • noun any of several coarse fishes (such as dogfish or wolffish) when used as food
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Salmon berry

  • noun white-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries
    Rubus parviflorus; salmonberry; thimbleberry.
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  • (Bot.), a large red raspberry growing from Alaska to California, the fruit of the Rubus Nutkanus.
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Salmon killer

  • (Zoöl.), a stickleback (Gasterosteus cataphractus) of Western North America and Northern Asia.
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Salmon ladder, salmon stair

  • . See Fish ladder, under Fish.
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salmon loaf

  • noun fish loaf made with flaked salmon
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salmon oil

  • noun a fatty oil obtained from the wastes in canning salmon; used in making soap and dressing leather
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salmon p. chase

  • noun United States politician and jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1808-1873)
    Salmon P. Chase; Chase.
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Salmon peel

  • a young salmon.
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salmon pink

  • noun a shade of pink tinged with yellow
    yellowish pink; peach; apricot.
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Salmon pipe

  • a certain device for catching salmon. Crabb.
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salmon portland chase

  • noun United States politician and jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1808-1873)
    Salmon P. Chase; Chase.
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salmon river

  • noun a tributary of the Snake River in Idaho
    Salmon.
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Salmon trout

  • noun flesh of marine trout that migrate from salt to fresh water
    sea trout.
  • noun large fork-tailed trout of lakes of Canada and the northern United States
    Salvelinus namaycush; lake trout.
  • noun speckled trout of European rivers; introduced in North America
    brown trout; Salmo trutta.
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  • . (Zoöl.) (a) The European sea trout (Salmo trutta). It resembles the salmon, but is smaller, and has smaller and more numerous scales. (b) The American namaycush . (c) A name that is also applied locally to the adult black spotted trout (Salmo purpuratus), and to the steel head and other large trout of the Pacific coast.
Webster 1913

sea salmon

Sea" salm"on
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  1. (Zoöl.) (a) A young pollock. (b) The spotted squeteague. (c) See Sea bass (b).
Webster 1913

Silver salmon

  • noun fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes
    cohoe; coho salmon; coho.
  • noun small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes
    cohoe; coho; Oncorhynchus kisutch; coho salmon; blue jack.
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  • (Zoöl.), a salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) native of both coasts of the North Pacific. It ascends all the American rivers as far south as the Sacramento. Called also kisutch, whitefish, and white salmon.
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smoked salmon

  • noun salmon cured by smoking
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sockeye salmon

  • noun fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers
    red salmon; sockeye.
  • noun small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning
    sockeye; red salmon; blueback salmon; Oncorhynchus nerka.
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White salmon

  • (Zoöl.), the silver salmon.
Webster 1913