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SALMON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("salmon" is a kind of...):
food fish (any fish used for food by human beings)
salmonid (soft-finned fishes of cold and temperate waters)
Meronyms (parts of "salmon"):
salmon (flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "salmon"):
blackfish (female salmon that has recently spawned)
redfish (male salmon that has recently spawned)
Atlantic salmon; Salmo salar (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)
chinook; chinook salmon; king salmon; Oncorhynchus tshawytscha; quinnat salmon (large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning)
chum; chum salmon; Oncorhynchus keta (a large Pacific salmon with small spots on its back; an important food fish)
blue jack; coho; coho salmon; cohoe; Oncorhynchus kisutch; silver salmon (small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes)
Holonyms ("salmon" is a member of...):
family Salmonidae; Salmonidae (salmon and trout)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A pale pinkish orange color
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("salmon" is a kind of...):
chromatic color; chromatic colour; spectral color; spectral colour (a color that has hue)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("salmon" is a kind of...):
fish (the flesh of fish used as food)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "salmon"):
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; chinook salmon; king salmon (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)
Holonyms ("salmon" is a part of...):
salmon (any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A tributary of the Snake River in Idaho
Synonyms:
Salmon; Salmon River
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))
Holonyms ("Salmon" is a part of...):
Gem State; ID; Id.; Idaho (a state in the Rocky Mountains)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of orange tinged with pink
Synonyms:
pink-orange; pinkish-orange; salmon
Classified under:
Similar:
chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)
Context examples:
Low mercury fish include salmon, shrimp, pollock, canned light tuna, tilapia, catfish, and cod.
(Brain benefits of aerobic exercise lost to mercury exposure, NIH)
Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), docosapentaenoic acid (DPA), and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) are found in seafood, including fatty fish (such as salmon, tuna, and trout) and shellfish (such as crab, mussels, and oysters).
(Omega-3s linked with lower risk of fatal heart attacks, NIH)
Since the great majority of symptomatic myeloma patients are classified as stage III by the Durie/Salmon criteria, this staging system has not proven to be very useful for identifying the patients with intermediate and poor prognosis.
(DS Stage III Plasma Cell Myeloma, NCI Thesaurus/PDQ)
And it was very kind of you, my own darling, said I. I felt it so much that I wouldn't on any account have even mentioned that you bought a Salmon—which was too much for two.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Foods rich in calcium include: • Dairy products such as milk, cheese, and yogurt • Leafy, green vegetables • Fish with soft bones that you eat, such as canned sardines and salmon • Calcium-enriched foods such as breakfast cereals, fruit juices, soy and rice drinks, and tofu.
(Calcium, NIH: National Institutes of Health Office of Dietary Supplements)
Loading the nanoparticles into the microdroplets allows us to control the shape and size of the clusters, giving us dramatic colour changes, said Dr Andrew Salmon from Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory, the study’s co-first author.
(Colour-changing artificial ‘chameleon skin’ powered by nanomachines, University of Cambridge)
To atone for this conduct therefore, Elinor took immediate possession of the post of civility which she had assigned herself, behaved with the greatest attention to Mrs. Jennings, talked with her, laughed with her, and listened to her whenever she could; and Mrs. Jennings on her side treated them both with all possible kindness, was solicitous on every occasion for their ease and enjoyment, and only disturbed that she could not make them choose their own dinners at the inn, nor extort a confession of their preferring salmon to cod, or boiled fowls to veal cutlets.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Also is tobacco of value. It is of very great value. The Indian gives one large salmon for one leaf of tobacco, and he chews the tobacco for a long time.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
"It is not strange, Salmon Tongue," Grey Beaver answered.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The first day they covered thirty-five miles to the Big Salmon; the next day thirty-five more to the Little Salmon; the third day forty miles, which brought them well up toward the Five Fingers.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
