Common name | Beaked salmon |
Language | English |
Type | AFS |
Official trade name | No |
Rank | 1 - (Legal common name (unique)) |
Country | United States (contiguous states) |
Locality | |
Ref. | Robins, C.R., R.M. Bailey, C.E. Bond, J.R. Brooker, E.A. Lachner, R.N. Lea and W.B. Scott, 1991 |
Life stage | juveniles and adults |
Sex | females and males |
Core | behavior |
1st modifier | morphology |
2nd modifier | |
Remarks | 'Beak', replaced Old English 'bile', i.e., bill, from Old French 'bec' from Latin 'beccus' borrowed from Gaulish (original Latin 'rostrum'); 'salmon' replaced Old English 'laex' (German 'lachs'; Swedish 'lax', source of English 'gravlax'; Yiddish 'laks', source of English 'lox', i.e., smoked salmon; Russian 'losos') borrowed from Anglo-Norman 'saumoun' from Latin 'salmo, -onis' linked to 'salire', i.e., to jump and hence, the leaping fish (p. 454 in Ref. 11979). |