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1. Salmon
   Perhaps the best-known of all fish, pictures of salmon from 12,000 B.C. have been found. Salmon migrate from the seas into freshwater to spawn. Over the years, some varieties have become landlocked in lakes.
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2. Salmon
   Waters:Most species of wild salmon inhabit icy-cold North Pacific Waters. Atlantic salmon is an endangered species, but markets worldwide are well stocked with the farm-raised variety harvested in the U.S. (Pacific Northwest and New England states), Chile, and Norway. (Note: Salmon is anadromous, meaning that it spawns in fresh water. Some fish become landlocked in lakes, resulting in a supply of freshwater salmon, which is considered to be not as flavorful, and therefore not as prized, as saltw…
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3. salmon
   [n] - a tributary of the Snake River 2. [n] - flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae 3. [n] - any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters
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4. salmon
   order of fish Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
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5. Salmon
   Salm'on (săm'ŭn) noun ; plural Salmons (-ŭnz) or ( collectively ) Salmon . [ Middle English saumoun , salmon , French saumon , from Latin salmo , salmonis , per...
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6. Salmon
   Salm'on adjective Of a reddish yellow or orange color, like that of the flesh of the salmon.
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7. salmon
   Origin: OE. Saumoun, salmon, F. Saumon, fr. L. Salmo, salmonis perhaps from salire to leap. Cf. Sally, v. ... 1. <zoology> 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...
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8. salmon
   noun any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn
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9. salmon
   noun flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae
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10. Salmon
    Salmon River noun a tributary of the Snake River in Idaho
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11. Salmon
    • (a.) Of a reddish yellow or orange color, like that of the flesh of the 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 m...
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12. salmon
    originally, the large fish now usually called the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), though more recently the name has been applied to similar fishes of ... [16 related articles]
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13. salmon
    salmon Etymology: from Old French salmun, from Latin salmonem (nominative case, salmo), 'a salmon'; possibly originally 'leaper' from salire, 'to leap'; although some dismiss this as folk etymology. According to Dr. Ernest Klein, in his Klein's Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English L...
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14. Salmon
    HMS Salmon was a British Sealion Class submarine of 670 tons displacement completed in 1936 and sunk during the Second World War. HMS Salmon was armed with one 3-inch gun, one machine-gun and six 8-inch torpedo tubes. She was manned by a crew of 40.
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15. Salmon
    bogied flat wagon, for carrying track panels. Code YSA/YWA.
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16. Salmon
    Salmon (săl'mon) , in the Bible. 1. Father of Boaz. An alternate form is Salma. 2. Place, probably the same as Zalmon.
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17. Salmon
    Salmon, river, c.425 mi (680 km) long, rising in many branches in the Sawtooth and the Salmon River mts., central Idaho. It flows northeast and is joined, at Salmon, by the Lemhi River, after which it flows west and is joined by the Middle Fork and the South Fork, then goes north to join the Snake R...
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18. salmon
    salmon (săm'un) , member of the Salmonidae, a family of marine fish that spawn in freshwater, including the salmons, the trouts, and the chars. Many authorities place the whitefish and the grayling among the Salmonidae, so similar are they in structure and habits. The Salmonidae are the mo...
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19. Salmon
    The salmon (Salmo salar) is a fish of the Salmonidae family.
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20. salmon
    Any of the various bony fishes of the family Salmonidae. More specifically the name is applied to several species of game fishes of the genera Salmo and Oncorhynchus of North America and Eurasia that mature in the ocean but, to spawn, return to the freshwater streams where they were born. Their norm...
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21. Salmon
    `Salmon` () is the common name for several species of fish in the family Salmonidae. Several other fish in the same family are called date=March 2011--> but this distinction does not strictly hold true. Salmon live along the coasts of both the North Atlantic (one migratory species Atlantic salmon...
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22. Salmon
    (color) `Salmon` a range of pale pinkish-orange to light pink colors, named after the color of salmon flesh. Actual salmon color varies from almost white to deep pink, depending on their levels of the carotenoid astaxanthin due to how rich a diet of krill and shrimp the fish feeds on; the sal...
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23. Salmon
    (biblical figure) in the Sistine Chapel of Salmon with Boaz and Obed. `Salmon` is a person in the Hebrew Bible. His name can be pronounced Salmon or Salmah. He is the son of Nahshon, and married with Rahab of Jericho, by whom he had Boaz. Salmon is mentioned in 1 Chronicles 2:10-11; Ruth 4:20...
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