salmonid

[sal-muh-nid]

adjective

belonging or pertaining to the family Salmonidae, including the salmons, trouts, chars, and whitefishes.

noun

a salmonid fish.

Origin of salmonid

First recorded in 1865–70, salmonid is from the New Latin word Salmonidae name of the family. See salmon, -id²

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Examples from the Web for salmonid

Historical Examples of salmonid

The Salmonid are found in the rivers flowing into the Arctic Ocean.
The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2
Various
The species of Salmonid call particularly our attention, from the minuteness of the characters upon which their distinction rests.
The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Vol. XLIX
Various
We shall limit our remarks to the species which are essentially marine, such as the Salmonid, the Clupead, and a few others.
The Ocean World:
Louis Figuier
The whole salmon family—the Salmonid—are typical northern immigrants.
The History of the European Fauna
R. F. Scharff
Probably the sexually-immature worm occurs in other fishes, especially the Salmonid.
Parasites
T. Spencer Cobbold

British Dictionary definitions for salmonid

salmonid

noun

any fish of the family Salmonidiae

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