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gravlaks

gravlaks is the alternative spelling of gravlax.

Meaning of gravlax

Noun

gravlax (uncountable)

  1. Salmon dry-cured in salt, seasoned with dill and sugar, and served usually thinly sliced as an appetizer.

Origin of gravlaks

Borrowed from Norwegian gravlaks, a compound of grave (“to dry-cure in salt and sugar”) + laks (“salmon”), calque of Swedish gravlax.

Questions about gravlaks

What is gravlaks the alternative spelling of?
Gravlaks is the alternative spelling of gravlax.

Words near gravlaks in the dictionary

  1. gravity-darkened
  2. gravity-darkening
  3. gravityless
  4. gravitylessness
  5. gravitylike
  6. gravlaks
  7. gravlax
  8. Gravley
  9. Gravleys
  10. Gravlin
  11. Gravlins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gravlaks (page history and authors); gravlax (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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