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| chinook salmon |
a large salmon of the northern Pacific that has usu. reddish flesh; king salmon. |
| coho |
a small ocean salmon, now often introduced into fresh water as a game fish; coho salmon; silver salmon. |
| fingerling |
a small fish, esp. a young trout or salmon. |
| fish ladder |
a series of pools at gradually increasing heights that allows fish, such as salmon, to swim upstream around a dam or other obstruction. |
| grilse |
a young male salmon that has returned to fresh water for its first spawning. |
| king salmon |
see "chinook salmon." |
| landlocked |
of certain salmon, living in inland waters. [1/2 definitions] |
| lox1 |
a variety of smoked salmon. |
| parr |
the young of certain fishes, esp. the salmon before it leaves fresh water. |
| pink salmon |
a widespread species of small Pacific salmon. |
| red salmon |
see "sockeye salmon." |
| salmonberry |
the salmon-colored edible fruit of this plant. [1/2 definitions] |
| scissortail |
a large flycatcher of the southwestern United States, and Central and South America, that has a gray body, salmon-pink sides and wing linings, and a long, deeply forked tail. |
| smoked salmon |
salmon, usu. brine-cured, that has been smoked in preparation for consumption. |
| smolt |
a young salmon that has developed enough to migrate from fresh water to the sea. |
| sockeye salmon |
an edible red-fleshed salmon found in the coastal waters of the North Pacific. |
| trout |
any of various freshwater or anadromous fishes related to the salmon, usu. having a speckled body, and valued as food and game. [1/2 definitions] |
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