silver salmon

Questions about silver salmon

What does silver salmon mean?

silver salmon means "fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for silver salmon?

Close synonyms include coho salmon, coho, cohoe, coho, cohoe. 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 silver salmon a common word?

silver 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.