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salmon

salm.on \'sam-*n\ n or salmon also salmons [ME samon, fr. MF, fr. L 
   salmon-, salmo] pl  often attrib  1a: a large soft-finned anadromous game 
   fish (Salmo salar) of the nor thern Atlantic noted as a table fish 1b: any 
   of various other anadromous fishes (family Salmonidae); esp :: a fish 
   (genus Oncorhynchus) that breeds in rivers tributary to the northern 
   Pacific 1c: a fish (as a barramunda) resembling a salmon  2: the variable 
   color of salmon's flesh averaging a strong yellowish pink