salmons

Noun

salmon (countable and uncountable, plural salmon or salmons)

1. One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers to spawn.
   • grilled salmon

   Synonyms:

   lax, lox

2. (uncountable) A meal or dish made from this fish.
3. (plural salmons) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.

   Synonyms:

   salmon pink

4. The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
5. (Cockney, slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)
   • Got any salmon?1992, “Ebeneezer Goode”, performed by The Shamen
6. (Sri-Lanka) canned fish, usually mackerel.
   • Tinned mackerel is confusingly called ‘salmon’ in Sri Lanka. So this dish, in Sinhalese, is salmon hodi, or salmon in gravy. Now that I think on it, all tinned fish in Sri Lanka is called salmon.2018 July 29, Chath Ginige, “Spicy Mackerel Curry”, in akkis kitchen (blog), archived from the original on 23 Jul 2019

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