lox
pronunciation
How to pronounce lox in British English:
UK [lɒks]
How to pronounce lox in American English:
US [ lɑːks]
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- Noun:
- brine-cured salmon
Word Origin
- lox (n.)
- 1934, American English, from Yiddish laks, from Middle High German lahs "salmon," from Proto-Germanic *lakhs-, from the common IE root for the fish, *laks- (cognates: Lithuanian laszisza, Russian losos, Polish łosoś "salmon").
Example
- 1. I like to eat lox .
- 2. It could be lox , I wouldn 't care .
- 3. Use commercially frozen fish for cold-smoked fish and lox , .
- 4. Relationship between lox activity and aba accumulation in tobacco leave under water stress .
- 5. Relationship between lox activity and ja accumulations in cucumber leaves induced by pathogen .