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salmonless

salmonless adjective: devoid of salmon.

Adjective

salmonless (not comparable)

  1. Devoid of salmon.
    • a salmonless river
    • […] that there is a large increase in the numbers of salmon in Scottish rivers; and on this instinct, with the aid of fishways and fish culture, the New England states now depend for restocking their salmonless streams.1868, Thaddeus Norris, American Fish-culture: Embracing All the Details of Artificial Breeding and Rearing of Trout; the Culture of Salmon, Shad, and Other Fishes

Origin of salmonless

From salmon + -less.

Questions about salmonless

What does salmonless mean?
Salmonless means devoid of salmon.
What part of speech is salmonless?
Salmonless is an adjective.

Words near salmonless in the dictionary

  1. salmoniforms
  2. salmonine
  3. salmonines
  4. salmoning
  5. salmonish
  6. salmonless
  7. salmonlike
  8. salmonoid
  9. salmonoids
  10. salmons
  11. Salmonses

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