salmons
SaySA-muhnz/ˈsæmənz/
- 1Plural of salmon. Used chiefly for kinds or species; the usual plural is salmon.
Biologists compared how the Pacific salmons differ in their spawning habits.
Pacific and Atlantic salmons follow very different migration routes.
Note
A plural most writers use only when they mean kinds of salmon rather than individual fish. For counting fish of one kind, English keeps the unchanged form: three salmon in the net, a river full of salmon. The -s form is useful when species are being set side by side, as in the Pacific and Atlantic salmons. When in doubt, the unmarked plural is the safe choice.
salmons is a form of salmon
salmon, noun: A silvery-sided fish of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above and pink-fleshed, that swims up rivers to spawn. Full entry
- Forms
- salmon also pluralsalmons plural
- Spelling
- salmon → salmons: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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