Word Meanings - SALMONOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like, or pertaining to, the Salmonidæ, a family of fishes including the trout and salmon. -- n.

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• TROUT
  Any one of numerous species of fishes belonging to Salmo, Salvelinus, and allied genera of the family Salmonidæ. They are highly esteemed as game fishes and for the quality of their flesh. All the species breed in fresh water, but after spawning
• FAMILY
  A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
• TROUTLET
  A little trout; a troutling. Hood.
• TROUTLING
  A little trout; a troutlet.
• TROUT-COLORED
  White, with spots of black, bay, or sorrel; as, a trout-colored horse.
• INCLUDED
  Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• SALMONOID
  Like, or pertaining to, the Salmonidæ, a family of fishes including the trout and salmon. -- n.
• SALMONET
  A salmon of small size; a samlet.
• INCLUDE
  1. To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell. 2. To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason
• INCLUDIBLE
  Capable of being included.
• TROUTBIRD
  The American golden plover.
• SALMON
  Any one of several species of fishes of the genus Salmo and allied genera. The common salmon of Northern Europe and Eastern North America, and the California salmon, or quinnat, are the most important species. They are extensively preserved for
• BULL TROUT
  In England, a large salmon trout of several species, as Salmo trutta and S. Cambricus, which ascend rivers; -- called also sea trout. Salvelinus malma of California and Oregon; -- called also Dolly Varden trout and red-spotted trout. The huso or
• STROUT
  To swell; to puff out; to project. Chaucer.
• SEA SALMON
  A young pollock. The spotted squeteague. See Sea bass .
• SUBFAMILY
  One of the subdivisions, of more importance than genus, into which certain families are divided.
• MACKINAW TROUT
  The namaycush.
• HUMPBACKED SALMON
  A small salmon which ascends the rivers of the Pacific coast from California to Alaska, and also on the Asiatic side. In the breeding season the male has a large dorsal hump and distorted jaws.
• SUPERFAMILY
  A group intermediate between a family and a suborder.