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Atlantic salmon

noun

  1. a valuable food and game fish, Salmo salar, mainly of northern coastal Atlantic waters or, when spawning, in freshwater streams that are tributaries to the ocean.


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Origin of Atlantic salmon1

First recorded in 1900–05

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