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Definition of salmon

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Salmon (v.) 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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Salmon :: Salmon (v.) 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..

Cruive :: Cruive (n.) A kind of weir or dam for trapping salmon; also, a hovel..

Gray :: Gray (n.) An animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or a kind of salmon..

Cycloidei :: Cycloidei (n. pl.) An order of fishes, formerly proposed by Agassiz, for those with thin, smooth scales, destitute of marginal spines, as the herring and salmon. The group is now regarded as artificial..

Kelt :: Kelt (n.) A salmon after spawning.

Kayko :: Kayko (n.) The dog salmon.

Teleocephial :: Teleocephial (n. pl.) An extensive order of bony fishes including most of the common market species, as bass, salmon, cod, perch, etc..

Catanadromous :: Catanadromous (a.) Ascending and descending fresh streams from and to the sea, as the salmon; anadromous..

Sewen :: Sewen (n.) A British trout usually regarded as a variety (var. Cambricus) of the salmon trout.

Kipper :: Kipper (n.) A salmon after spawning.

Parr :: Parr (n.) A young salmon in the stage when it has dark transverse bands; -- called also samlet, skegger, and fingerling..

Botcher :: Botcher (n.) A young salmon; a grilse.

Salmon :: Salmon (v.) A reddish yellow or orange color, like the flesh of the salmon..

Branlin :: Branlin (n.) A young salmon or parr, in the stage in which it has transverse black bands, as if burned by a gridiron..

Fingerling :: Fingerling (n.) A young salmon. See Parr.

Grilse :: Grilse (n.) A young salmon after its first return from the sea.

Poach :: Poach (v. i.) To steal or pocket game, or to carry it away privately, as in a bag; to kill or destroy game contrary to law, especially by night; to hunt or fish unlawfully; as, to poach for rabbits or for salmon..

Smelt :: Smelt (n.) Any one of numerous species of small silvery salmonoid fishes of the genus Osmerus and allied genera, which ascend rivers to spawn, and sometimes become landlocked in lakes. They are esteemed as food, and have a peculiar odor and taste..

Skowitz :: Skowitz (n.) The silver salmon.

Gaff :: Gaff (v. t.) To strike with a gaff or barbed spear; to secure by means of a gaff; as, to gaff a salmon..