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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History
...Wright, Richard J. Freshwater Whales: A History of the American Ship Building Company and Its Predecessors . Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1969. Young, David M. Chicago Maritime: An Illustrated History . DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001. M. Stephen Salmon Ocean Cargo Companies In choosing where to deploy their vessels, shipowners have always recognized the varying operational needs of the different ocean trades. Such strategic considerations include whether to carry a mixed or single cargo; whether to trade point to point or among...
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Sandra L. Oliver
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (2 ed.)
... Salmon consumed in America comes from both the Atlantic and the Pacific and is caught wild as well as farm-raised. The Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar ) and its Pacific counterparts—sockeye ( Oncorhynchus nerka ); Chinook ( O. tshawytscha ); chum ( O. keta ); coho, or silver, salmon ( O. kisutch ); and pink, or humpback, salmon ( O. gorbuscha )—are all anadromous. Salmon ranks among the most favored of finfishes of the past and present. Salmon are eaten fresh and are available as fillets, as steaks, and in the round. They are poached, baked, and grilled. The...
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A Dictionary of Agriculture and Land Management
... Several species of fish which belong to the family Salmonidae ; for example, the Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar ). They are migratory fish, and the adult returns from the sea to freshwater to spawn. They are of significant economic importance for commercial fishing, game fishing , and aquaculture . The latter includes the farming of salmon in coastal waters, with particular concerns raised on its ecological impacts and disease effects on wild salmon...
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Garner's Modern English Usage (5 ed.)
... is pronounced / sam -әn/ , not / sal -mәn/ . But salmonella is pronounced with the l : /sal-mә- nel -ә/ . ...
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A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
...Here the salmon bears a name, Fintan (1) . When Fionn spears the salmon on his own at the falls of Assaroe it is known as Goll Essa Ruaid [the one-eyed fish of Assaroe]. A comparable Welsh salmon of wisdom swims under the name Llyn Llyw along the Severn and is ‘the oldest of living creatures’, ‘the wisest of forty animals’; it tells Culhwch where Mabon is being held prisoner. Leixlip, Co. Kildare, on the Liffey also has strong associations with salmon [ON leax hlaup , salmon leap; Ir. Léim an Bhradáin ] . In Irish tradition salmon gain wisdom...
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A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition (4 ed.)
... Marine fish that spawn in fresh water. Atlantic salmon is Salmo salar ; others are Oncorhynchus spp.: cherry or Pacific salmon is O. masou masou , Chum or keta salmon is O. keta , coho, silver, or medium red salmon is O. kisutch , pink salmon is O. gorbuscha , red or sockeye salmon is O. nerka , spring, king, or chinook salmon is O. tshawytscha . Although wild salmon are caught on a large scale, most of the salmon available in Europe is farmed in deep inlets of the sea, especially in Scotland and Norway. An 85g serving of Atlantic salmon...
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World Encyclopedia
... Marine and freshwater fish of the Northern Hemisphere. Most species are silvery and spotted until the spawning season when they turn dark or red. The Pacific salmon ( Oncorhynchus ) hatches, spawns, and dies in freshwater, but spends its adult life in the ocean. The Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar ) is a marine trout that spawns in rivers on each side of the Atlantic Ocean and then returns to the sea. Weight: to 36kg (80lb). Family...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names of Ireland
...Thomas Salmon, 1821 in Tithe Applotment (Bally Knicea, Kilmanman, Queen’s [Laois]); Maurice Sammon, 1821 in Tithe Applotment (Coolagh, Kilmanman, Queen’s); Patrick Salmon, 1823 in Tithe Applotment (Crutt, Castlecomer, Kilkenny); Wm Samon, 1823 in Tithe Applotment (Parsonstown Parks, Birr, King’s [Offaly]); John Sammon, 1824 in Tithe Applotment (Gurtnaluig, Kiltormer, Galway); Benjamin Salmon, 1826 in Tithe Applotment (Knuckillie, Clonfert, Cork); James Salmon, 1826 in Tithe Applotment (Mullaghduff, Donagh, Monaghan). Salmon, 1911...
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Mike Allaby
Dictionary Plus Science and Technology
... A medium-sized to large fish (family Salmonidae) with a long, streamlined body, highly prized for food and sport, that inhabits cool waters of the North Atlantic and North Pacific and rivers flowing into them. Most salmon are anadromous, hatching in fresh water where they remain as juveniles, then migrating to the ocean and returning to fresh water to reproduce, usually to the river from which they came. There are two genera. Salmo, with one species ( S. salar ), is the Atlantic salmon, and the genus Oncorhynchus comprises six species of Pacific salmon:...
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Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
... US frequency (2010): 14511 1 English and French: from the Middle English and Old French personal name Salmon , Saumon , a shortened form of Salomon (see Solomon ). The Normans introduced it to England, and it was current as a personal name there until at least the end of the 14th century. The derived surname is found throughout 13th- and 14th-century England, mostly in the spellings Saleman and Salman , which eventually became regularized as Salmon . See also 2 below, compare Salman 3. 2 English: occasionally perhaps a nickname for someone...
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The Oxford Companion to Food (3 ed.)
... of which there are six well-known species, in the family Salmonidae, all belong to the northern waters of the northern hemisphere. The fish which have been called ‘salmon’ in Australia and S. Africa are not salmon at all. The most famous salmon is Salmo salar , the Atlantic salmon, whose range extended in times past from Portugal up to Norway and across by Greenland to N. America, probably down to the Hudson River. However, the life-cycle of this fish is such that it has increasingly come up against man-made obstacles in the last two centuries and is...
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Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain
...for his wisdom. 2 English: nickname from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English salmon , saumo(u)n , saumun , samoun ‘salmon’, no doubt given to someone who caught, sold, or ate the fish. Surnames derived from terms denoting fish are not uncommon, including Bass , Gudgeon , Herring , Tench , and Trout . 3 Irish: adopted for Ó Bradáin ‘descendant of Bradán ’, a personal name probably derived from bradach ‘spirited’, but written the same as an Irish word meaning ‘salmon’. This name is also sometimes rendered into English as Fisher...
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Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2 ed.)
... any of various fish of the family Salmonidae, which live in coastal waters of the North Atlantic and North Pacific and breed in rivers. Their flesh is comparatively rich in oils with a high content of long‐chain n −3 fatty acids ; typical composition (major fatty acids, expressed as % of total fatty acids): 16:0, 10; 16:1( n −7), 5; 18:0, 4; 18:1 ( n −9), 24; 18:2( n −6), 5; 18:3( n −3), 5; 20:1( n −9), 1; 20:4( n −6), 5; 20:5( n −3), 5; 22:6( n −3),...
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The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers
...and Contemporary Perspectives , ed. Paolo Parrini, Wesley C. Salmon, and Merilee H. Salmon (Pittsburgh, 2003), pp. 375–87. Further Reading Bio 20thC Phils , Oxford Comp Phil , Pres Addr of APA v8 , Proc of APA v75 , Who Was Who in Amer v14 Fetzer, James H. , ed. Probability and Causality: Essays in Honor of Wesley C. Salmon (Dordrecht, 1988). Galavotti, Mari. Carla , and Alessandro Pagnini , eds. Experience, Reality, and Scientific Explanation: Essays in Honor of Merrilee and Wesley Salmon (Dordrecht, 1999). McLaughlin, Robert ed. What? Where? When?...
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A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition (4 ed.)
..., rock Alternative name for dogfish...
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A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition (4 ed.)
... berry Fruit of American wild raspberry, Ribes spectabilis...
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The Diner’s Dictionary (2 ed.)
...salmon In the British fishmongery trade, the term rock salmon covers a multitude of sins. It has been used since at least the 1930s for any fish which, if its real identity were known, would put the customers off. The commonest recipients of the name have been the dogfish and the wolfish. An alternative euphemism also occasionally encountered is rock eel...
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A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
... leap . Cúchulainn 's aggressive, highly effective combat strategy is not fully explained in the texts where he exercises it. One modern commentator has suggested it may be comparable to the aggressive jump of soccer...
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James Bogen
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2 ed.)
..., Wesley ( 1925–2001 ). US philosopher of science , who devoted most of his attention to scientific explanation and the epistemology of science. Salmon rejected the Logical Positivist doctrine that the adequacy of an explanation depends upon whether what is to be explained can be deduced (the ‘deductive-nomological’ account) or is inductively inferrable (the ‘inductive-statistical’ account) from the explanation. He first proposed that explaining an occurrence is a matter of finding factors which are statistically relevant to it (the ‘statistical...
