salmonidn.adj.
/ˈsalmənɪd/ A fish of the family Salmonidæ. Also attributive and as adj.
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1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 329 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV The creature..looking..more like a spiritual polliwog than a real salmonide.
1882 A. Nicols Acclim. Salmonidæ at Antipodes 83 The presence of migratory salmonids in their rivers.
1888 Daily News 19 May 7/3 Highly satisfactory results have attended salmonide culture this season.
1895 B. Dean Fishes Living & Fossil viii. 186 Eggs of Salmonids are deposited loosely in ‘nests’ on a clean, gravelly bottom.
1931 J. R. Norman Hist. Fishes xiii. 268 When the climate was considerably colder the range of migratory Salmonids extended much farther south.
1964 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. 2 178 Further changes have been reported to occur after fertilization of the ova in another salmonid, the rainbow trout.
1970 New Scientist 19 Feb. 353/1 Ulcerative dermal necrosis..attacks salmon and other salmonid fish.
1975 Nature 14 Aug. 528/2 Fish farming in the UK has grown slowly in the freshwater and marine salmonid field under commercial patronage.
1978 Nature 2 Mar. 77/1 Evidence of large-scale gene loss following tetraploidy has been reported in both salmonid and catostomid fish.
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