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salmon vs silver salmon

silver salmon vs salmon

salmon and silver salmon both are nouns.

salmon is an adjective but silver salmon is not an adjective.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
salmon Yes Yes No No
silver salmon Yes No No No
As nouns, silver salmon is a hyponym of salmon; that is, silver salmon is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than salmon:
  • salmon: any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn
  • silver salmon: small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes
Other hyponyms of salmon include blackfish, redfish, Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, blueback salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka, red salmon, sockeye, sockeye salmon, chinook, chinook salmon, king salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, quinnat salmon, chum, chum salmon, Oncorhynchus keta, blue jack, coho, coho salmon, cohoe, Oncorhynchus kisutch.
As nouns, silver salmon is a hyponym of salmon; that is, silver salmon is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than salmon:
  • salmon: flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae
  • silver salmon: fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes
Other hyponyms of salmon include Atlantic salmon, red salmon, sockeye, sockeye salmon, chinook, chinook salmon, king salmon, coho, coho salmon, cohoe, smoked salmon, kippered salmon.
salmon (noun) silver salmon (noun)
any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes
a pale pinkish orange color fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes
flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae
salmon (adjective) silver salmon (adjective)
of orange tinged with pink
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