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🐟 A large sea fish 🍣 A pink fish meat
Atlantic salmon

Atlantic salmon

1.8
Pink, fatty fish meat that people eat, often cooked or smoked
  • noun
  • /əˈtlæntɪk ˈsælmən/
translation icon : salmón atlántico
  • The chef prepared a delicious dish featuring Atlantic salmon with a light lemon sauce.

Examples

  • The restaurant offers both wild and farmed Atlantic salmon on its menu.

  • The chef prepared grilled Atlantic salmon with a lemon-dill sauce for dinner.

  • Fresh Atlantic salmon is prized for its delicate texture and rich flavor.

  • I love eating Atlantic salmon for dinner.

  • The restaurant serves fresh Atlantic salmon every day.

  • At the seafood market, fresh Atlantic salmon is often recommended for its rich flavor.

  • For dinner, we enjoyed grilled Atlantic salmon served with asparagus and rice.

Synonyms

fish
vsAtlantic salmon
805 1.0

Meat from a water animal that people cook and eat

is the pink fatty flesh from a specific northern species
salmon
vsAtlantic salmon
76 1.0

Pink meat from the fish that people cook and eat

is the flesh specifically from the species that lives in northern seas
Salmo salar
vsAtlantic salmon
  • Specialized
7.4

A large fish that lives in the North Atlantic and in rivers

is the edible pink fatty flesh rather than the living species

Surface Forms

Atlantic salmon singular
Atlantic salmons plural

Morphology

Atlantic + salmon

The meaning 'a type of salmon found in the Atlantic' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'Atlantic' (relating to the Atlantic Ocean) with 'salmon' (the fish). This is a straightforward descriptive compound following normal compositional patterns and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand the MWE.

Etymology

Atlantic salmon gets its name from the pink, fatty meat of a salmon that comes from the Atlantic. So when you see 'Atlantic salmon' on a menu, it means the salmon's flesh used as 'food'.