salmon

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

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.
2. A meal or dish made from this fish.
3. A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.
4. The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
5. (slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)

Adj

Having a pale pinkish-orange colour.

Verb

To ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street.

Concepts

saumon

salmoniculture

ouananiche

Synonymes

fish

🐟

salmon pink

pink-orange

dog salmon

pinkish-orange

calico salmon

lax

lox

parr

pink

red

rose

🌹

spring

Atlantic salmon

dog

🐕

blush-rose

chinook salmon

silver salmon

silversides

blueback salmon

queenfish

keta

white salmon

jack spring

chum salmon

fall

flatfish

grilse

ingot

kelt

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈsæmən/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From Middle English samoun, samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō, salmōn-. Displaced native Middle English lax, from Old English leax (“salmon”). The unpronounced l was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root (compare words like debt, indict, receipt for the same spelling Latinizations).
The verb sense “ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street” alludes to salmon swimming upstream against the flow of a river to spawn.

Phrases

Our diversion was therefore changed to spearing of salmon .

Notre détournement a donc été changé en lance du saumon.