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salmonid

salmonid adjective: of or pertaining to fish of the salmon family (Salmonidae), including salmon, trout, chars, freshwater whitefishes and graylings.

Adjective

salmonid (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to fish of the salmon family (Salmonidae), including salmon, trout, chars, freshwater whitefishes and graylings.
    • Westslope cutthroat trout, or cutts, are among western Montana’s original salmonid inhabitants; […]2014 August 4, Chris Santella, “In Montana, Cutthroat Trout Are Hungry Trout”, in The New York Times

Noun

salmonid (plural salmonids)

  1. A fish of the Salmonidae family.
    • But commercial fishing and the construction of dams over the last two centuries have contributed to the decline of wild salmonids by 95 percent.2019 December 11, Priyanka Runwal, “A Silicon Valley Disruption for Birds That Gorge on Endangered Fish”, in The New York Times

Forms of salmonid

pluralsalmonids

Origin of salmonid

Borrowed from translingual Salmonidae. By surface analysis, salmon + -id.

Questions about salmonid

What does salmonid mean?
Salmonid means of or pertaining to fish of the salmon family (Salmonidae), including salmon, trout, chars, freshwater whitefishes and graylings.
What part of speech is salmonid?
Salmonid can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near salmonid in the dictionary

  1. salmoners
  2. salmonet
  3. salmonets
  4. salmonflies
  5. salmonfly
  6. salmonid
  7. salmonids
  8. salmoniform
  9. salmoniforms
  10. salmonine
  11. salmonines

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