Meaning of unsalmonlike | Babel Free

Definitions

Not salmonlike.

Examples

“Is there no means of rousing him ? We tighten our line gently, and thereby are able to discern that he is amusing himself by rubbing his lower jaw against a sunken rock. This we call unsalmonlike, so here goes stone at his head.”

“[…] that an ichthyologist of Valenciennes's attainments should not detect that such a fish, even represented in a drawing only, having so few longitudinal scales and other unsalmonlike peculiarities was not a Coregonus.”

“As small, unsalmonlike fish called parr, they swim down the rivers and disappear into the sea.”

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