salmonid

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salmonid

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Borrowed from translingual Salmonidae. By surface analysis, salmon + -id.

adjective

  1. not comparable Of or pertaining to fish of the salmon family (Salmonidae), including salmon, trout, chars, freshwater whitefishes and graylings. Westslope cutthroat trout, or cutts, are among western Montana’s original salmonid inhabitants; […]

noun salmonids

  1. A fish of the Salmonidae family. But commercial fishing and the construction of dams over the last two centuries have contributed to the decline of wild salmonids by 95 percent.

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"salmonid." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/salmonid. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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@misc{salmonid_2026,
  title = {salmonid},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/salmonid},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}