salmony
adjEtymology From salmon + -y.
1
Resembling salmon or some aspect of it.
- This stream, which forms the Cascade de Con, abounds with a delicious little trout, the best flavoured and the most salmony I ever ate.1840, John William Carleton, editor, The Sporting review:
- The color is pretty much the shade seen in Queen Alexandra, a salmony bronze, one of the kinds commonly called off-colors...1906, Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Horticulture:
- Synonyms
- salmonlike