Word Type

Noun

Proper Noun

Verb

Adjective

Adjective

The word "salmon" can be used as noun, proper noun, verb, adjective and adjective.

Word Relationships

Capable Of

head upstream need to spawn swim upstream

Derived Terms

Atlantic salmon Australian salmon Brazilian salmon pink tarantula Burnett salmon Cape salmon Chinook salmon Cornish salmon Danube salmon Dawson river salmon King Salmon Nova Scotia salmon Pacific salmon Salmon River Salmond Sebago salmon Tyee salmon bay salmon beachsalmon beaked salmon black salmon blueback salmon caplin-scull salmon cherry salmon chum salmon coho salmon colonial salmon dog salmon fresh-water salmon giant salmon carp humpback salmon humpbacked salmon jack salmon kelp salmon king-of-the-salmon kokanee salmon land-locked salmon landlocked salmon lomi salmon lomilomi salmon nonsalmon outside salmon pink salmon quinnat salmon red salmon rock salmon saber-toothed salmon salcatonin salmon and trout salmon bites salmon caviar salmon day salmon gum salmon killer salmon ladder salmon leap salmon peel salmon pink salmon shark salmon trout salmon-bellied racer salmon-coloured salmon-crested cockatoo salmon-striped swamp frog salmonberry salmonburger salmoner salmonet salmonid salmonish salmonless salmonlike salmonoid salmony sea salmon silver salmon smoked salmon smoked salmon socialist sockeye salmon spring salmon white salmon

Etymologically Related To

debt indict receipt

Context

cockney rhyming slang plural salmons slang

Prerequisites

swim upstream to spawn

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

chromatic color chromatic colour fish food fish salmonid spectral color spectral colour

Type Of (IsA)

chromatic color edible fish fish food food fish food item good food for humans salmonid

Part Of

idaho

Related Terms

Burton Salmon alevin anadromous arctic char blackfish coarse fish gravlax grilse kelt kipper lox parr redfish samlet smolt sockeye trout yolk fry

Related Terms

alevin anadromous bicycle blackfish brick city coarse fish colour fish gravlax grilse heat idaho kelt kiln kipper lemhi county lox one way street orange parr pinkish redfish salmon river salmoninae salmons samlet several smolt snout sockeye spawn species trout yolk fry

Similar Terms

chromatic

Synonym Network

lax lox pinkish orange salmon pink

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.