atlantic salmon

Questions about atlantic salmon

What does atlantic salmon mean?

atlantic salmon means "fatty pink flesh of fish from northern coastal Atlantic; usually marketed fresh". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for atlantic salmon?

Close synonyms include Salmo salar. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is atlantic salmon a common word?

atlantic salmon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.