salmon

English Thesaurus

1. any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	food fish,
definition	:	any fish used for food by human beings (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	salmonid,
definition	:	soft-finned fishes of cold and temperate waters (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	blackfish,
definition	:	female salmon that has recently spawned (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	redfish,
definition	:	male salmon that has recently spawned (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	atlantic salmon, salmo salar,
definition	:	found in northern coastal Atlantic waters or tributaries; adults do not die after spawning (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	blueback salmon, oncorhynchus nerka, red salmon, sockeye, sockeye salmon,
definition	:	small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	chinook, chinook salmon, king salmon, oncorhynchus tshawytscha, quinnat salmon,
definition	:	large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	chum, chum salmon, oncorhynchus keta,
definition	:	a large Pacific salmon with small spots on its back; an important food fish (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	blue jack, coho, coho salmon, cohoe, oncorhynchus kisutch, silver salmon,
definition	:	small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes (noun.animal)

part holonym	:	salmon,
definition	:	flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae (noun.food)

member meronym	:	family salmonidae, salmonidae,
definition	:	salmon and trout (noun.animal)

2. a pale pinkish orange color (noun.attribute)

hypernym	:	chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour,
definition	:	a color that has hue (noun.attribute)

3. flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae (noun.food)

hypernym	:	fish,
definition	:	the flesh of fish used as food (noun.food)

hyponym	:	atlantic salmon,
definition	:	fatty pink flesh of fish from northern coastal Atlantic; usually marketed fresh (noun.food)

hyponym	:	red salmon, sockeye, sockeye salmon,
definition	:	fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers (noun.food)

hyponym	:	chinook, chinook salmon, king salmon,
definition	:	pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon (noun.food)

hyponym	:	coho, coho salmon, cohoe, silver salmon,
definition	:	fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes (noun.food)

hyponym	:	smoked salmon,
definition	:	salmon cured by smoking (noun.food)

hyponym	:	kippered salmon,
definition	:	salted and smoked salmon (noun.food)

part meronym	:	salmon,
definition	:	any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn (noun.animal)

4. a tributary of the Snake River in Idaho (noun.object)

instance hypernym	:	river,
definition	:	a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek) (noun.object)

part meronym	:	gem state, id, idaho,
definition	:	a state in the Rocky Mountains (noun.location)

5. of orange tinged with pink (adj.all)

similar	:	chromatic,
definition	:	being or having or characterized by hue (adj.all)

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