Meaning

(zoology) 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..

Definitions by Sense

1. (zoology) 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.
2. A meal or dish made from this fish.
3. (plural salmons) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.
4. The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
5. (Cockney rhyming slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)
6. (Sri Lanka) canned fish, usually mackerel.
7. Having a pale pinkish-orange colour.
8. (slang, intransitive) To ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street.

Example Sentences

grilled salmon

salmon paté

salmon steak

Got any salmon?

Tinned mackerel is confusingly called ‘salmon’ in Sri Lanka. So this dish, in Sinhalese, is salmon hodi, or salmon in gravy. Now that I think on it, all tinned fish in Sri Lanka is called salmon.

With a thick gravy made up of onions, tomatoes, spices, and coconut milk this Sri Lankan salmon curry might breathe new life to those canned mackerels on your shelf.

We manufacture canned markerel fish (salmon)

Smiley and Guillam perched disconsolately beneath it, on a bench of salmon velvet.

Word Forms

• salmon
• salmons
• salmoning
• salmoned

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When Should You Use Salmon?

Use salmon when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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