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silver salmon

n. coho salmon, ''Oncorhynchus kisutch''

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silver salmon
  1. n. fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes [syn: coho salmon, coho, cohoe]

  2. small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes [syn: coho, cohoe, coho salmon, blue jack, Onchorynchus kisutch]

Usage examples of "silver salmon".

The exis fence of the Fish Speakers and especially of their religious and military devotion, can be best explained by the significance qfjjsh a divine life symbol from antiquity Which species became the dominant symbol is disputed According to Fish Speaker legend, the sandtrout so important in Dane history is a relict form of a now-extinct lungfish, but trout are very similar to salmon, and the Legend of the Silver Salmon-a large fish with oracular powers and a reputation for escaping all nets and lures-persisted in Fremen culture despite the absence of water Some investigators believe that the legend may have been imported from Caladan where the appearance of the Golden Carp was said to predict a tome when the planet would be destroyed by a vast flood, and only those who believed in the Golden Carp would survive Yet, as a divine Itfe symbol in many cultures, the Vesica Pisas was an oval figure pointed at .

Luan Norwelyn, hard-faced and more gray-haired than when Elayne last saw him, his blue coat undecorated except for Norwelyn's Silver Salmon on the high collar.

Whenever Raiha strolled past me, I felt as a simple smelt must feel when a silver salmon glides by.

For now, what he first noticed was his mind: quick and shining, sharp but deep, moving through a sea of thought like a giant silver salmon.