salmonid
English
Etymology
Borrowed from translingual Salmonidae. By surface analysis, salmon + -id.
Adjective
salmonid (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to fish of the salmon family (Salmonidae), including salmon, trout, chars, freshwater whitefishes and graylings.
- 2014 April 8, Chris Santella, “In Montana, Cutthroat Trout Are Hungry Trout”, in The New York Times[1]:
- Westslope cutthroat trout, or cutts, are among western Montana’s original salmonid inhabitants; […]
Noun
salmonid (plural salmonids)
- A fish of the Salmonidae family.
- 2019 November 12, Priyanka Runwal, “A Silicon Valley Disruption for Birds That Gorge on Endangered Fish”, in The New York Times[2]:
- But commercial fishing and the construction of dams over the last two centuries have contributed to the decline of wild salmonids by 95 percent.
Anagrams
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French salmonidés.
Noun
salmonid n (plural salmonide)