Synonyms of the word salmon


SALMONCHROMATIC - FISH - RIVER - SALMONID

salmon

  • n. One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily.
  • n. (plural salmons) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.
  • n. (Cockney rhyming slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout).
  • adj. Having a pale pinkish-orange colour.

chromatic

  • adj. Relating to or characterised by hue.
  • adj. Having the capacity to separate spectral colours by refraction.
  • adj. (music) Related to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage is…

fish

  • n. (countable) A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing…
  • n. (archaic or loosely) Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
  • n. (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
  • n. (uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on…
  • n. (uncountable, derogatory, slang) A woman.
  • n. (countable, slang) An easy victim for swindling.
  • n. (countable, poker slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
  • n. (countable, nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish,…
  • n. (nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
  • n. (countable, nautical) A torpedo.
  • n. (zoology) A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups.
  • n. (countable) A period of time spent fishing.
  • n. (countable) An instance of seeking something.
  • v. (intransitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals.
  • v. (transitive) To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
  • v. (intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
  • v. (intransitive, followed by "for" or "around for") To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something.
  • v. (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
  • v. (nautical) To repair a spar or mast using a brace often called a fish (see Noun above).
  • n. (obsolete) A counter, used in various games.

river

  • n. A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a…
  • n. Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.
  • n. (poker) The last card dealt in a hand.
  • v. (poker) To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.
  • n. One who rives or splits.

salmonid

  • adj. Of or pertaining to fish of the salmon family (Salmonidae), including salmon, trout, chars, freshwater…
  • n. A fish of the Salmonidae family.

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