salmon
Pronunciation: /ˈsæmən/
The English word “salmon” has 8 meanings listed here.
noun
- 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.
- A meal or dish made from this fish.
- A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.
- The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
- snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)
- canned fish, usually mackerel.
adjective
verb
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…
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