salmonoid
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]salmonoid (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to the family Salmonidae of salmon and close relatives.
Noun
[edit]salmonoid (plural salmonoids)
- Any of these fish.
- 1978 January 29, Nelson Bryant, “Wood, Field and Stream”, in The New York Times[1]:
- The lake trout‐Lwhich need no populations of two salmonoids, lake trout and landlocked salmon.
- 1988 May 27, Nelson Bryant, “OUTDOORS; Quest for a 100-Year-Old Fish”, in The New York Times[2]:
- One of his planned angling adventures is a float trip of nearly 100 miles down a wild stretch of the Zhang River in quest of various little-known trout and a salmonoid called the taimen, which can reach well over 100 pounds and live for more than a century.