unsalmonlike

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ salmonlike.

Adjective

unsalmonlike (comparative more unsalmonlike, superlative most unsalmonlike)

1. Not salmonlike.
   • 1838, The Sporting Magazine, page 351:

     Is there no means of rousing him ? We tighten our line gently, and thereby are able to discern that he is amusing himself by rubbing his lower jaw against a sunken rock. This we call unsalmonlike, so here goes stone at his head.

   • 1910, David Starr Jordan, John Casper Branner, The Cretaceous Fishes of Ceará, Brazil, volume 52, page 98:

     […] that an ichthyologist of Valenciennes's attainments should not detect that such a fish, even represented in a drawing only, having so few longitudinal scales and other unsalmonlike peculiarities was not a Coregonus.

   • 1960, Oliver La Farge, The American Indian, page 177:

     As small, unsalmonlike fish called parr, they swim down the rivers and disappear into the sea.