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salmon

[sam-uhn] / ˈsæm ən /




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"We've seen the Atlantic salmon return to the river and also the critically endangered European eel makes its way up the Mersey and into the River Gowy to breed each year as well," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

She serves her son, now 5, their favorite broiled salmon recipe a few times a week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

The Sacramento River has gotten too warm for salmon eggs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

From June until mid October, the bears gorge on food, including salmon caught with their jaws or paws.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Jack offers me a strip of smoked salmon, but I lie and say I’m full.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

Shotter said that salmon sperm “is harvested from salmons without harming them.”

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2024

As a result, the state has been trucking millions of salmons raised at hatcheries to the ocean each year, bypassing the perilous downstream journey.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2021

Well, but amongst these minnow-fishers there was one who fished with an air that made the minnows look larger than salmons.

From The Caxtons — Complete by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

"There are salmons in Wye," says Shakespeare, and we are reminded of it because the Statute of Winchester in the same year contains a provision that is almost literally quoted by Dogberry in "Twelfth Night."

From Popular Law-making by Frederic Jesup Stimson

There is a river in Macedon; and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth; . . . and there is salmons in both.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett




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