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unsalmonlike

unsalmonlike adjective: not salmonlike.

Adjective

unsalmonlike (comparative more unsalmonlike, superlative most unsalmonlike)

  1. Not salmonlike.
    • Is there no means of rousing him ? We tighten our line gently, and thereby are able to discern that he is amusing himself by rubbing his lower jaw against a sunken rock. This we call unsalmonlike, so here goes stone at his head.1838, The Sporting Magazine, page 351
    • […] that an ichthyologist of Valenciennes's attainments should not detect that such a fish, even represented in a drawing only, having so few longitudinal scales and other unsalmonlike peculiarities was not a Coregonus.1910, David Starr Jordan, John Casper Branner, The Cretaceous Fishes of Ceará, Brazil, volume 52, page 98

Forms of unsalmonlike

comparativemore unsalmonlike
superlativemost unsalmonlike

Origin of unsalmonlike

From un- + salmonlike.

Questions about unsalmonlike

What does unsalmonlike mean?
Unsalmonlike means not salmonlike.
What part of speech is unsalmonlike?
Unsalmonlike is an adjective.

Words near unsalmonlike in the dictionary

  1. unsalient
  2. unsalinated
  3. unsaline
  4. unsalinized
  5. unsalivated
  6. unsalmonlike
  7. unsalt
  8. unsalted
  9. unsaltedness
  10. unsaltiness
  11. unsalting

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