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salm·on  audio  (smn) KEY  

NOUN:
pl. salmon or salm·ons
  1. Any of various large food and game fishes of the genera Salmo and Oncorhynchus, of northern waters, having delicate pinkish flesh and characteristically swimming from salt to fresh water to spawn.
  2. A moderate, light, or strong yellowish pink to a moderate reddish orange or light orange.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English samoun, from Old French saumon, from Latin salm , salmn-; see sel- in Indo-European roots


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