salmon

Plural: salmon, salmons

Noun

A large, commercially important food fish, known for its pink flesh.
any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn
a tributary of the Snake River in Idaho
flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae
a pale pinkish orange color
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.
A meal or dish made from this fish.
A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.
The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)

Adjective Satellite

of orange tinged with pink

Adj

Having a pale pinkish-orange colour.

Verb

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

Examples

grilled salmon
Playing SALMON felt like a big catch, netting him a good score in Words With Friends.
salmon paté
salmon steak

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English samoun, samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō, salmōn-. Widely displaced native Middle English lax, from Old English leax (whence modern dialectal lax). 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.

Synonyms

pink-orange, pinkish-orange, Salmon River, lax, lox, salmon pink

Scrabble Score: 8

salmon: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
salmon: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
salmon: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 11

salmon: valid Words With Friends Word