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salmony

salmony adjective: resembling salmon or some aspect of it.

Adjective

salmony (comparative more salmony, superlative most salmony)

  1. Resembling salmon or some aspect of it.
    • This stream, which forms the Cascade de Con, abounds with a delicious little trout, the best flavoured and the most salmony I ever ate.1840, John William Carleton, editor, The Sporting review
    • The color is pretty much the shade seen in Queen Alexandra, a salmony bronze, one of the kinds commonly called off-colors...1906, Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Horticulture
    Synonyms:
    salmonlike

Synonyms of salmony

Forms of salmony

comparativemore salmony
superlativemost salmony

Origin of salmony

From salmon + -y.

Questions about salmony

What does salmony mean?
Salmony means resembling salmon or some aspect of it.
What part of speech is salmony?
Salmony is an adjective.

Words near salmony in the dictionary

  1. salmons
  2. Salmonses
  3. salmonsite
  4. Salmonson
  5. Salmonsons
  6. salmony
  7. Salmore
  8. salmoriglio
  9. salmosin
  10. salms
  11. salmycin

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