unsalmonlike
English
Etymology
un- + salmonlike
Adjective
unsalmonlike (comparative more unsalmonlike, superlative most unsalmonlike)
- Not salmonlike.
- 1838, The Sporting Magazine (page 351)
- Is there no means of rousing him ? We tighten our line gently, and thereby are able to discern that he is amusing himself by rubbing his lower jaw against a sunken rock. This we call unsalmonlike, so here goes stone at his head.
- 1910, David Starr Jordan, John Casper Branner, The Cretaceous Fishes of Ceará, Brazil (volume 52, page 98)
- […] that an ichthyologist of Valenciennes's attainments should not detect that such a fish, even represented in a drawing only, having so few longitudinal scales and other unsalmonlike peculiarities was not a Coregonus.
- 1960, Oliver La Farge, The American Indian (page 177)
- As small, unsalmonlike fish called parr, they swim down the rivers and disappear into the sea.
- 1838, The Sporting Magazine (page 351)