samletn.
/ˈsamlɪt/ A young salmon.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > salmo salar (salmon) > young
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1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler vi. 141 There is more then one sort of them, as namely, a Tecon, and another called in some places a Samlet, or by some, a Skegger. View more context for this quotation
1686 F. Willughby & J. Ray De Hist. Piscium iv. iv. 192 Salmulus, Herefordiæ Samlet dictus.
1742 R. Cornes in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 42 129 What goes here by the Name of Samlet, a small Fish spotted with Red, not much unlike the Trout.
1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 253 The samlet is the lest of the trout kind.
1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 34 They commonly spawn in October, and the young become samlets the following year.
1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 62 They are called indifferently, samlets, par, last spring, or fingerlings.
1884 G. F. Braithwaite Salmonidæ Westmorland v. 18 The samlets have in the fresh water been content with small worms [etc.].
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