Salmon
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
salmon
adj 1: of orange tinged with pink [syn: {pink-orange}, {pinkish-
orange}, {salmon}]
n 1: any of various large food and game fishes of northern
waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn
2: a tributary of the Snake River in Idaho [syn: {Salmon},
{Salmon River}]
3: flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the
family Salmonidae
4: a pale pinkish orange color
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Salmon \Salm"on\ (s[a^]m"[u^]n), n.; pl. {Salmons} (-[u^]nz) or
(collectively) {Salmon}. [OE. saumoun, salmon, F. saumon, fr.
L. salmo, salmonis, perhaps from salire to leap. Cf. {Sally},
v.]
1. (Zool.) Any one of several species of fishes of the genus
{Salmo} and allied genera. The common salmon ({Salmo
salar}) of Northern Europe and Eastern North America, and
the California salmon, or quinnat, are the most important
species. They are extensively preserved for food. See
{Quinnat}.
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Note: The salmons ascend rivers and penetrate to their head
streams to spawn. They are remarkably strong fishes,
and will even leap over considerable falls which lie in
the way of their progress. The common salmon has been
known to grow to the weight of seventy-five pounds;
more generally it is from fifteen to twenty-five
pounds. Young salmon are called parr, peal, smolt, and
grilse. Among the true salmons are:
{Black salmon}, or {Lake salmon}, the namaycush.
{Dog salmon}, a salmon of Western North America
({Oncorhynchus keta}).
{Humpbacked salmon}, a Pacific-coast salmon ({Oncorhynchus
gorbuscha}).
{King salmon}, the quinnat.
{Landlocked salmon}, a variety of the common salmon (var.
Sebago), long confined in certain lakes in consequence of
obstructions that prevented it from returning to the sea.
This last is called also {dwarf salmon}.
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Note: Among fishes of other families which are locally and
erroneously called salmon are: the pike perch, called
{jack salmon}; the spotted, or southern, squeteague;
the cabrilla, called {kelp salmon}; young pollock,
called {sea salmon}; and the California yellowtail.
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2. A reddish yellow or orange color, like the flesh of the
salmon.
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{Salmon berry} (Bot.), a large red raspberry growing from
Alaska to California, the fruit of the {Rubus Nutkanus}.
{Salmon killer} (Zool.), a stickleback ({Gasterosteus
cataphractus}) of Western North America and Northern Asia.
{Salmon ladder}, {Salmon stair}. See {Fish ladder}, under
{Fish}.
{Salmon peel}, a young salmon.
{Salmon pipe}, a certain device for catching salmon. --Crabb.
{Salmon trout}. (Zool.)
(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.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ceratodus \Ce*rat"o*dus\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ke`ras, ke`ratos horn
+ ? tooth.] (Zool.)
A genus of ganoid fishes, of the order Dipnoi, first known as
Mesozoic fossil fishes; but recently two living species have
been discovered in Australian rivers. They have lungs so well
developed that they can leave the water and breathe in air.
In Australia they are called {salmon} and {baramunda}. See
{Dipnoi}, and {Archipterygium}.
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from
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Salmon
shady; or Zalmon (q.v.), a hill covered with dark forests, south
of Shechem, from which Abimelech and his men gathered wood to
burn that city (Judg. 9:48). In Ps. 68:14 the change from war to
peace is likened to snow on the dark mountain, as some interpret
the expression. Others suppose the words here mean that the
bones of the slain left unburied covered the land, so that it
seemed to be white as if covered with snow. The reference,
however, of the psalm is probably to Josh. 11 and 12. The
scattering of the kings and their followers is fitly likened
unto the snow-flakes rapidly falling on the dark Salmon. It is
the modern Jebel Suleiman.
from
U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Salmon, ID (city, FIPS 71650)
Location: 45.17786 N, 113.89852 W
Population (1990): 2941 (1469 housing units)
Area: 4.4 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 83467
from
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Salmon, ID -- U.S. city in Idaho
Population (2000): 3122
Housing Units (2000): 1576
Land area (2000): 1.721817 sq. miles (4.459486 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.053828 sq. miles (0.139414 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.775645 sq. miles (4.598900 sq. km)
FIPS code: 71650
Located within: Idaho (ID), FIPS 16
Location: 45.178110 N, 113.902660 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 83467
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Salmon, ID
Salmon
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
65 Moby Thesaurus words for "salmon":
Loch Ness monster, alevin, benthon, benthos, broad jumper,
bucking bronco, buckjumper, cetacean, coral, dolphin, fingerling,
fish, flea, frog, fry, game fish, gazelle, goat, grasshopper,
grilse, high jumper, hopper, hurdle racer, hurdler, incarnadine,
jackrabbit, jumper, jumping bean, jumping jack, kangaroo, kipper,
leaper, man-eater, man-eating shark, marine animal, minnow, minny,
nekton, panfish, pink, pinkish, pinky, plankton, pole vaulter,
porpoise, primrose, rose, rose-colored, rose-hued, rose-red,
roseate, rosy, sea monster, sea pig, sea serpent, sea snake, shark,
smolt, sponge, stag, sunfisher, timber topper, tropical fish,
vaulter, whale
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