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Atlantic salmon

American  

noun

  1. a valuable food and game fish, Salmo salar, mainly of northern coastal Atlantic waters or, when spawning, in freshwater streams that are tributaries to the ocean.

Etymology

Origin of Atlantic salmon

First recorded in 1900–05

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