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Salmon
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- 1 Having a pale pinkish-orange colour. not-comparable
"Smiley and Guillam perched disconsolately beneath it, on a bench of salmon velvet."
- 1 of orange tinged with pink wordnet
- 1 A surname. countable, uncountable
- 2 The father of Boaz by Rahab; the son of Nahshon (biblical figure).
- 3 A placename; A city, the county seat of Lemhi County, Idaho, United States, situated on the Salmon River, after which it was probably named. countable, uncountable
- 4 A placename; Ellipsis of Salmon River. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
- 1 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. countable, uncountable
"grilled salmon"
- 2 any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn wordnet
- 3 A meal or dish made from this fish. countable, uncountable
- 4 a pale pinkish orange color wordnet
- 5 A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon. countable, uncountable
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- 6 flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae wordnet
- 7 The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat. countable, uncountable
- 8 snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout) Cockney, countable, slang, uncountable
"Got any salmon?"
- 9 canned fish, usually mackerel. Sri-Lanka, countable, uncountable
"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."
- 1 To ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street. intransitive, slang
"2014: "Salmon, Don't Shoal: Learning The Lingo Of Safe Cycling" by Marc Silver, NPR Some cities discourage salmoning with clever signage, like this in London: "If you can read this you are biking the wrong way.""
Etymology
From Middle English samoun, samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō, salmōn-. Widely displaced native Middle English lax, from Old English leax (whence modern dialectal lax). The unpronounced l was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root (compare words like debt, indict, receipt for the same spelling Latinizations). The verb sense “ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street” alludes to salmon swimming upstream against the flow of a river to spawn.
From Middle English samoun, samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō, salmōn-. Widely displaced native Middle English lax, from Old English leax (whence modern dialectal lax). The unpronounced l was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root (compare words like debt, indict, receipt for the same spelling Latinizations). The verb sense “ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street” alludes to salmon swimming upstream against the flow of a river to spawn.
From Middle English samoun, samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō, salmōn-. Widely displaced native Middle English lax, from Old English leax (whence modern dialectal lax). The unpronounced l was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root (compare words like debt, indict, receipt for the same spelling Latinizations). The verb sense “ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street” alludes to salmon swimming upstream against the flow of a river to spawn.
* (Idaho, river): named after the fish, salmon
From Hebrew שַׂלְמוֹן (salmown).
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