Salmon berry (Bot.), a large red raspberry growing from Alaska to
California, the fruit of the Rubus Nutkanus. -- Salmon killer (Zoöl.),
a stickleback (Gasterosteus cataphractus) of Western North America and
Northern Asia. -- Salmon ladder, Salmon stair. See Fish ladder, under
Fish. -- Salmon peel, a young salmon. -- Salmon pipe, a certain device
for catching salmon. Crabb. -- Salmon trout. (Zoöl.) (a) The European
sea trout (Salmo trutta). It resembles the salmon, but is smaller, and
has smaller and more numerous scales. (b) The American namaycush. (c) A
name that is also applied locally to the adult black spotted trout
(Salmo purpuratus), and to the steel head and other large trout of the
Pacific coast.
Salm"on, a. Of a reddish yellow or orange color, like that of the flesh
of the salmon.
Salm"on*et (?), n. [Cf. Samlet.] (Zoöl.) A salmon of small size; a
samlet.
Sal"mon*oid (?), a. [Salmon + -oid.] (Zoöl.) Like, or pertaining to,
the Salmonidæ, a family of fishes including the trout and salmon. -- n.
Any fish of the family Salmonidæ.