red salmon

Questions about red salmon

What does red salmon mean?

red salmon means "fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for red salmon?

Close synonyms include sockeye, sockeye salmon, sockeye, sockeye salmon, blueback salmon. 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 red salmon a common word?

red salmon is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.