English

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Etymology

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From salmon +‎ -id.

Adjective

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salmonid (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to fish of the salmon family (Salmonidae), including salmon, trout, chars, freshwater whitefishes and graylings.
    • 2014 April 8, Chris Santella, “In Montana, Cutthroat Trout Are Hungry Trout”, in The New York Times[1]:
      Westslope cutthroat trout, or cutts, are among western Montana’s original salmonid inhabitants; []

Noun

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salmonid (plural salmonids)

  1. A fish of the Salmonidae family.
    • 2019 November 12, Priyanka Runwal, “A Silicon Valley Disruption for Birds That Gorge on Endangered Fish”, in The New York Times[2]:
      But commercial fishing and the construction of dams over the last two centuries have contributed to the decline of wild salmonids by 95 percent.

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French salmonidés.

Noun

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salmonid n (plural salmonide)

  1. salmonid

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