unsalmonlike
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not salmonlike.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "[…] 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."
- "As small, unsalmonlike fish called parr, they swim down the rivers and disappear into the sea."
Etymology
From un- + salmonlike.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un
Inflected Forms
more unsalmonlike (comparative)
most unsalmonlike (superlative)