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- adjective Resembling
salmon (the fish or its meat) or some aspect of it.
Etymologies
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Examples
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'SALMONLIKE CONUNDRUMS' -- Keying off President Obama's salmon comedy in the State of the Union address, the Examiner's Jonetta Rose Barras identifies analogs in the District's regulatory regime: The District has its own salmonlike conundrums.
DeMorning DeBonis: Jan. 31, 2011 Mike DeBonis 2011
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I came to Mongolia to flyfish for Taimen, the legendary salmonlike fish that lives in its big rivers.
Bill Heavey Chases Mongolian Taimen (with Prairie Dogs as Bait) 2004
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They had just heard some natives crying out that a vast shoal of _tau tau_ -- a large salmonlike fish, greatly prized throughout the South Seas -- had made their appearance, and already some canoes were being got ready.
The Flemmings And "Flash Harry" Of Savait From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902 Louis Becke 1884
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Cantona's time at United was a mixture of the sublime and the combustible - unable to ignore a fan's slur about his native country, he aimed a kung fu kick at the man during a match, leaping salmonlike over the gate.
NYT > Home Page By TIM ADAMS 2011
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"The shape was salmonlike, with a bull head," said David Carrier from Kith
Chicago Reader 2010
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