Salmon vs Guppy - What's the difference?
salmon | guppy |
One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily.
A yellowish pink colour, the colour of cooked salmon.
(Cockney rhyming slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout )
* 1992 , The Shamen (band), (Ebeneezer Goode) (song)
Having a yellowish pink colour.
* 1977 , , The Honourable Schoolboy , Folio Society 2010, p. 155:
A tiny freshwater fish, , popular in home aquariums, that usually has a plain body and black or dark blue tail for the females and a more colorful tail for the males.
By extension, any tiny fish.
(paintball) A tube holding paintballs before they are loaded into the gun.
* 2001 , John R. Little, Curtis Wong, Ultimate Paintball Field Guide (page 177)
* I reached into my pack and grabbed a guppy to reload. Pouring in the contents, I kept my eyes ahead as I was supposed to do.
As nouns the difference between salmon and guppy
is that salmon is one of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily while guppy is a tiny freshwater fish, species: Poecilia reticulata, popular in home aquariums, that usually has a plain body and black or dark blue tail for the females and a more colorful tail for the males.As an adjective salmon
is having a yellowish pink colour.As a proper noun Salmon
is {{surname|lang=en}.salmon
English
(wikipedia salmon)Noun
(en-noun)- Got any salmon ?
Synonyms
* (fish) lax * (smoked salmon) lox * (colour) salmon pinkDerived terms
* Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar ) * (Salmo salar ) * beaked salmon () * (Salmo salar ) * (Oncorhynchus nerka ) * ) * (Salmo salar ) * ) * chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha ) * chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta ) * coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch ) * Danube salmon (Hucho hucho ) * ) * dog salmon (Oncorhynchus keta ) * (Salmo salar ) * ) * humpback salmon () * (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha ) * (Oncorhynchus nerka ) * land-locked salmon (Salmo salar ) * Nova Scotia salmon * (Salmo salar ) * (Oncorhynchus spp.) * ) * (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha ) * (Oncorhynchus nerka ) * rock salmon * salmon and trout * (Cacatua moluccensis ) * salmon day * (Eucalyptus spp.) * salmon ladder * salmon leap * salmon peel * ) * ) * salmon trout (Salmo gairdneri ) * ) * salmonberry () * salmonid * (Salmo salar ) * silver salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch'', ''Salmo salar ) * smoked salmon * (Oncorhynchus nerka ) * spring salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha ) * (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha )Adjective
(-)- Smiley and Guillam perched disconsolately beneath it, on a bench of salmon velvet.
See also
* * alevin * anadromous * arctic char * blackfish * coarse fish * gravlax * grilse * kelt * kipper * lox * parr * redfish * smolt * sockeye * trout * yolk fryguppy
English
Noun
(guppies)- Fred kept a tank of guppies by the windowsill.
- Throw that one back; it’s just a guppy!