unsalmonlike

comparative more unsalmonlike · superlative most unsalmonlike

1. Not salmonlike.

   As small, unsalmonlike fish called parr, they swim down the rivers and disappear into the sea.

   1960, Oliver La Farge, The American Indian, page 177

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   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.

   1838, The Sporting Magazine, page 351

   […] 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.

   1910, David Starr Jordan, John Casper Branner, The Cretaceous Fishes of Ceará, Brazil, volume 52, page 98