Definition of Red salmon

1. Noun. Fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers.

Exact synonyms: Sockeye, Sockeye Salmon
Group relationships: Blueback Salmon, Oncorhynchus Nerka, Sockeye, Sockeye Salmon
Generic synonyms: Salmon

2. Noun. Small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning.
Exact synonyms: Blueback Salmon, Oncorhynchus Nerka, Sockeye, Sockeye Salmon
Generic synonyms: Salmon
Group relationships: Genus Oncorhynchus, Oncorhynchus
Terms within: Sockeye, Sockeye Salmon

Lexicographical Neighbors of Red Salmon

red reflex
red region
red ribbon
red ribbons
red rice
red ring
red ring of death
red ringed
red ringing
red rings
red rings of death
red rocket
red rockets
red rockfish
red route
red salmon (current term)
red sandalwood
red sanders
red sanderswood
red saunders
red scare
red setter
red shift
red shrubby penstemon
red silk-cotton tree
red silk cotton
red silver fir
red siskin
red slender loris
red snapper

Literary usage of Red salmon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Pacific Monthly by William Bittle Wells, Lute Pease, Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1906)
"The names Blueback and red salmon are both appropriate, according to the season. The red salmon spawns only in streams which flow into lakes. ..."

2. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"This feature distinguishes the species readily from the red salmon. In color it is silvery in spring, greenish above, and with a few faint black spots on ..."

3. A Guide to the Study of Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1905)
"This feature distinguishes the species readily from the red salmon. In color it is silvery in spring, greenish above, and with a few faint black spots on ..."

4. Fish Stories Alleged and Experienced: With a Little History Natural and by Charles Frederick Holder, David Starr Jordan (1909)
"The names blueback and red salmon are both appropriate, according to the season. The red salmon spawns only in streams which flow into lakes. ..."

5. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"It is known in d>fl 'rent regions as blueback, redfish, red salmon, Fraser River salmon, and sock-eye or saw-qui. It ranks next to the chinook in commercial ..."

6. The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor by David Starr Jordan (1922)
"Both King Salmon and red salmon go up the Columbia to the Bitter Root ... red salmon, as already noted, spawn only above a lake; as a matter of fact, also, ..."

7. The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor by David Starr Jordan (1922)
"Both King Salmon and red salmon go up the Columbia to the Bitter Root ... red salmon, as already noted, spawn only above a lake; as a matter of fact, also, ..."

8. Greenhouse and Stove Plants, Flowering and Fine-leaved, Palms, Ferns, and by Thomas Baines (1885)
"Red, salmon tinted. Duke of Edinburgh. Variegated, white and green. Gathorne Hardy. Orange-scarlet. General Forre. Orange-salmon ; double. Henry Beurier. ..."

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