different between salmon vs yellowtail

English

Etymology

From Middle English samoun, samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salm?, salm?n-. Displaced native Middle English lax, from Old English leax. The unpronounced l was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root (compare words like debt, indict, receipt, island for the same spelling Latinizations).

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?'m?n, IPA^(key): /?sæm?n/
• Rhymes: -æm?n
• (Southern American English, sometimes) IPA^(key): /?sælm?n/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?s?m?n/

Noun

salmon (plural salmon)

1. One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers to spawn.

   Synonym: lax

2. (plural salmons) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.

   Synonym: salmon pink

3. The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
4. (Cockney rhyming slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)
   • 1992, The Shamen (band), Ebeneezer Goode (song)

     Got any salmon?

Derived terms

Related terms

• samlet

Descendants

• ? Burmese: ???????? (hcaila.mwan)
• ? Hebrew: ????????? (sálmon)
• ? Hindi: ???? (s?man)

Translations

Adjective

salmon (not comparable)

1. Having a pale pinkish-orange colour.
   • 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 155:

     Smiley and Guillam perched disconsolately beneath it, on a bench of salmon velvet.

Translations

Verb

salmon (third-person singular simple present salmons, present participle salmoning, simple past and past participle salmoned)

1. (slang, intransitive) To ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street.
   • 2014: "Salmon, Don't Shoal: Learning The Lingo Of Safe Cycling" by Marc Silver, NPR

     Some cities discourage salmoning with clever signage, like this in London: "If you can read this you are biking the wrong way."

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

Anagrams

• Almons, Lamson, Lomans, Malson, Sloman, monals

Cebuano

Etymology

From English salmon, from Middle English samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salm?, salm?n-.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sal?mon

Noun

salmon

1. a salmon; any of several fish in the subfamily Salmoninae

Esperanto

Noun

salmon

1. accusative singular of salmo

Friulian

Noun

salmon m (plural salmons)

1. salmon

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese salmão.

Noun

salmon

1. rainbow runner, Elagatis bipinnulata

References

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, ?ISBN

Middle English

Noun

salmon

1. Alternative form of samoun

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sal?mu?/

Noun

salmon m

1. salmon

English

Etymology

Bahuvrihi compound of yellow +? tail

Adjective

yellowtail (not comparable)

1. Having a yellow tail.

Noun

yellowtail (plural yellowtails)

1. Yellowtail amberjack (Seriola lalandi).
2. A fish native to the northwest Pacific, often used in sushi, the Japanese amberjack (Seriola quinqueradiata).
3. Any of various fish with yellow tails, including:
   1. Atlantic bumper (Chloroscombrus chrysurus).
   2. yellowtail flounder (Limanda ferruginea).
   3. yellowtail snapper (Ocyurus chrysurus).
   4. whitespotted devil (Plectroglyphidodon lacrymatus).
   5. yellowtail horse mackerel (Trachurus novaezelandiae).
4. A European moth (Euproctis similis)
5. The yellow-tailed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus funereus), a large cockatoo native to the south-east of Australia.
6. The yellow-tailed oriole (Icterus mesomelas), a passerine bird in the New World family Icteridae.
7. The yellow-tailed woolly monkey (Oreonax flavicauda), a New World primate endemic to Peru.

Synonyms

• (Seriola quinqueradiata): buri, hamachi, Japanese amberjack

Derived terms

• yellowtail cribo (Drymarchon corais corais)
• yellowtail amberjack (Seriola quinqueradiata)
• yellowtail barracuda (Sphyraena flavicauda)
• yellowtail flounder (Limanda ferruginea, syn. Pleuronectes ferruginea)
• yellowtail horse mackerel (Trachurus novaezelandiae)
• yellowtail snapper (Ocyurus chrysurus)

References

• yellowtail at OneLook Dictionary Search
• yellowtail in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Yellowtail (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia