salmonoid

From salmon +‎ -oid.

salmonoid (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the family Salmonidae of salmon and close relatives.

salmonoid (plural salmonoids)

1. Any of these fish.
   • 1978 January 29, Nelson Bryant, “Wood, Field and Stream”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     The lake trout‐Lwhich need no populations of two salmonoids, lake trout and landlocked salmon.

   • 1988 May 27, Nelson Bryant, “OUTDOORS; Quest for a 100-Year-Old Fish”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     One of his planned angling adventures is a float trip of nearly 100 miles down a wild stretch of the Zhang River in quest of various little-known trout and a salmonoid called the taimen, which can reach well over 100 pounds and live for more than a century.

• moondials