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Salmon

noun

(pl. salmons or collectively salmon)

Any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn.

A tributary of the Snake River in Idaho. Synonym: Salmon River.

Flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae.

A pale pinkish orange color.

adjective

Of orange tinged with pink. Synonyms: pink-orange, pinkish-orange.

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"Salmon" Quotes from Famous Books

... Bottled beer stood under a shelf, and there were two bags of haricot beans and some limp lettuces. This pantry opened into a kind of wash-up kitchen, and in this was firewood; there was also a cupboard, in which we found nearly a dozen of burgundy, tinned soups and salmon, and two ...

— The War of the Worlds • H. G. Wells

... that if I did put him in my Cabinet, I should find him interfering with the administration of the other departments in the same way that Seward sought to interfere, for instance, with the Treasury Department under Salmon P. Chase. McCombs is a man of fine intellect, but he is never satisfied unless he plays the stellar role, and I am afraid he cannot work in harness with other men and that I should never get any real team work from him. There ...

— Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him • Joseph P. Tumulty

... had a fresh-caught salmon, and we bought it from him. We then sat for a few minutes in his cabin. This was a miserable affair, not exceeding eight by ten feet, and, like Steve's home, so low we could not stand erect in it. ...

— The Lure of the Labrador Wild • Dillon Wallace

... of Dry Washes lies between the Cinoave on the south and the People of the Bow who possessed the Salmon Rivers, a great gray land cut across by deep gullies where the wild waters come down from the Wall-of-Shining-Rocks and worry the bone-white boulders. The People of the Dry Washes live meanly, and are meanly spoken of by the People of the Coast who drove them inland from the sea borders. After ...

— The Trail Book • Mary Austin et al

... of water-carriage upon the said river; and for the better regulation and government of seamen in the merchant service; and also to amend so much of an Act made during the reign of King George I. as relates to the better preservation of salmon in the River Ribble; and to regulate fees in trials and ...

— The Book-Hunter - A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author • John Hill Burton

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