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salmonoid

salmonoid adjective: of or pertaining to the family Salmonidae of salmon and close relatives.

Adjective

salmonoid (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the family Salmonidae of salmon and close relatives.

Noun

salmonoid (plural salmonoids)

  1. Any of these fish.
    • The lake trout‐Lwhich need no populations of two salmonoids, lake trout and landlocked salmon.1978 January 29, Nelson Bryant, “Wood, Field and Stream”, in The New York Times
    • One of his planned angling adventures is a float trip of nearly 100 miles down a wild stretch of the Zhang River in quest of various little-known trout and a salmonoid called the taimen, which can reach well over 100 pounds and live for more than a century.1988 May 27, Nelson Bryant, “OUTDOORS; Quest for a 100-Year-Old Fish”, in The New York Times

Forms of salmonoid

pluralsalmonoids

Origin of salmonoid

From salmon + -oid.

Questions about salmonoid

What does salmonoid mean?
Salmonoid means of or pertaining to the family Salmonidae of salmon and close relatives.
What part of speech is salmonoid?
Salmonoid can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near salmonoid in the dictionary

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

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