Meanings
- not comparableDevoid of salmon.
a salmonless river
1 more example
[…] that there is a large increase in the numbers of salmon in Scottish rivers; and on this instinct, with the aid of fishways and fish culture, the New England states now depend for restocking their salmonless streams.
1868, Thaddeus Norris, American Fish-culture: Embracing All the Details of Artificial Breeding and Rearing of Trout; the Culture of Salmon, Shad, and Other Fishes
Origin
Translations
Icelandic laxlaus
- laxlausdevoid of salmon
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