Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Resembling a salmon; of or pertaining to the Salmonidæ in a broad sense; related to the salmon family. Also salmoniform.
  • noun A salmonoid fish. Also salmoid, salmonid.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Like, or pertaining to, the Salmonidæ, a family of fishes including the trout and salmon.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to the Salmonoidea suborder of salmon
  • noun Any of these fish.

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Examples

  • With this understanding, in 1964, I took part in a 10 month postdoctoral exchange program between the U.S. National Academy of Science and the Academy of Sciences of the then USSR, to further my learning of the salmonoid fishes of the world.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • With this understanding, in 1964, I took part in a 10 month postdoctoral exchange program between the U.S. National Academy of Science and the Academy of Sciences of the then USSR, to further my learning of the salmonoid fishes of the world.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • With this understanding, in 1964, I took part in a 10 month postdoctoral exchange program between the U.S. National Academy of Science and the Academy of Sciences of the then USSR, to further my learning of the salmonoid fishes of the world.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • With this understanding, in 1964, I took part in a 10 month postdoctoral exchange program between the U.S. National Academy of Science and the Academy of Sciences of the then USSR, to further my learning of the salmonoid fishes of the world.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • Indian corn, and drying fish -- the _pirarucú_ (_Vastres gigas_), a salmonoid vulgarly called the cod-fish of the Amazon.

    Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

  • --- Farms eventually breed disease which spreads to the entire salmonoid family.

    BlueOregon 2009

  • --- Farms eventually breed disease which spreads to the entire salmonoid family.

    BlueOregon 2009

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