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# salmon

«salmon» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large silver fish that lives in the sea but swims up…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a salmon, salmon; salmon); adjective (salmon — the colour)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A salmon is a large silver fish that lives in the sea but swims up rivers to lay its eggs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salmon/#m1)

2) Salmon is the pink flesh of this fish eaten as food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salmon/#m2)

3) Salmon (or salmon pink) is an orange-pink colour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salmon/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons the salmon's life cycle is famous: born in a river, it grows up in the sea and swims back upstream, even jumping waterfalls, to lay eggs where it was born. In everyday life salmon is a healthy food with fats good for the brain. Phrases: «salmon run», «smoked salmon», «tinned salmon», «salmon pink».

### examples

- Salmon swim up the river to lay their eggs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salmon/#x1)
- Bears catch salmon as they jump up the waterfall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salmon/#x2)
- We had grilled salmon for dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salmon/#x3)
- Smoked salmon is good on toast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salmon/#x4)
- The salmon's flesh is pink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salmon/#x5)
- Her dress was salmon pink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salmon/#x6)
- At this moment a fine salmon swam slowly up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salmon/#x7)

### note

The «l» is silent: SAM-un. Plural is usually the same: «one salmon, ten salmon». As food it is uncountable: «some salmon». Salmon is a fish, so it is an animal with gills, not a mammal.

### In the corpora

- [Brown bears, including grizzlies, catch salmon at waterfalls in autumn to build up fat before winter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/23-bears/9/)
- [Orca groups are led by old grandmothers who can live 80 or even 90 years and remember where salmon are in bad years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/235-animal-minds-dolphins-names-orca-grandmothers-and-whale-songs/9/)
- [In autumn brown bears gather at rivers to catch salmon swimming upstream, fattening up for winter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world/7/)
- [Dietitians suggest eating oily fish, such as salmon or sardines, about once a week.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil/11/)
- [Whales, salmon, wildebeest and some butterflies also migrate.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/28-migration-and-hibernation/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «salmon» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salmon/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.