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salmons

  • plural
    of salmon.
    salmon
    noun
    a marine and freshwater food fish, Salmo salar, of the family Salmonidae, having pink flesh, inhabiting waters off the North Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America near the mouths of large rivers, which it enters to spawn.

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Shotter said that salmon sperm “is harvested from salmons without harming them.”

From Salon Jul. 20, 2024

As a result, the state has been trucking millions of salmons raised at hatcheries to the ocean each year, bypassing the perilous downstream journey.

From Seattle Times Jul. 26, 2021

In his doorway, protruding on James' sensitive vision, was a pyramid of sixpence-halfpenny tins of salmon, red, shiny tins with pink halved salmons depicted, and another yellow pyramid of four-pence-halfpenny tins of pineapple.

From The Lost Girl by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Also we wanted not of fresh salmons, trouts, lobsters, and other fresh fish brought daily unto us.

From Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland by Edward Hayes

There is a river in Macedon; there is also, moreover, a river in Monmouth: 'tis as like as my fingers to my fingers, and there is salmons in both!

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 by Various