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salmon

[sam-uhn] / ˈsæm ən /




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Delicious food — Jamaican patties, raspberry tarts, Nigerian-style goat, salmon tamales — scented the streets.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2026

In the Arctic Yukon, however, the cats occupied a very different ecological role as tertiary consumers and likely specialized in anadromous fish such as salmon.

From Science Daily Sep. 8, 2026

Norwegian salmon producer Mowi was hit in 2016 after warm water in Chilean fjords caused algal blooms that asphyxiated millions of fish.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 29, 2026

Those still open tend to have generators, menus priced in dollars and a clientele of well-connected Cubans, decked in salmon shirts and tassel loafers.

From Barron's Aug. 18, 2026

In the valley to the west was the Redwater: too shallow for canoes, but good fishing in spring, when the salmon come up from the Sea.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

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

Being, however, extremely slippery, he would have escaped had not Thor held him fast by the tail, and this is the reason why salmons have had their tails ever since so fine and thin.

From The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Saemund Sigfusson

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

Well, but amongst these minnow-fishers there was one who fished with an air that made the minnows look larger than salmons.

From The Caxtons — Complete by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton




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