salmony

English

Etymology

From salmon +‎ -y.

Adjective

salmony (comparative more salmony, superlative most salmony)

  1. Resembling salmon or some aspect of it.
    • 1840, John William Carleton, editor, The Sporting review:
      This stream, which forms the Cascade de Con, abounds with a delicious little trout, the best flavoured and the most salmony I ever ate.
    • 1906, Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Horticulture:
      The color is pretty much the shade seen in Queen Alexandra, a salmony bronze, one of the kinds commonly called off-colors...

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