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salmon
has definitions from the fields of zoology,chemistry,food,geography
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[ noun ] (zoology) any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn
Used in print (A.L. Kroeber, "Semantic Contribution of Lexicostatistic...)Swadesh , and therefore Hoijer , felt compelled to omit all terms denoting species or even genera ( fox , vulture , salmon , yellow_pine , manzanita ) ; their classes of animal and plant terms are restricted to generalizations or recurrent parts ( fish , bird , tree , grass , horn , tail , bark , root ) . Related terms salmonid food_fish chinook redfish blackfish sockeye Atlantic_salmon coho Salmonidae |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 2482
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[ noun ] (geography) a tributary of the Snake River
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[ noun ] (chemistry,food) flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae
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