salmonid
adjective, noun
salmonid is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to fish of the salmon family (Salmonidae), including salmon, trout, chars, freshwater whitefishes and graylings” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-A-L-M-O-N-I-D, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does salmonid mean?
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to fish of the salmon family (Salmonidae), including salmon, trout, chars, freshwater whitefishes and graylings.
noun
- 1
A fish of the Salmonidae family.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of salmonid
- salmonids plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is salmonid?
Salmonid appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does salmonid come from?
Borrowed from translingual Salmonidae. By surface analysis, salmon + -id.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).