Ruby and Salmon

ruby

A transparent piece of ruby that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem.
A transparent deep red variety of corundum; used as a gemstone and in lasers.
A deep and vivid red color.
- synonyms: crimson, deep red

Of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
- synonyms: red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby-red, scarlet

(n.) Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast.
(n.) A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum.
(n.) See Agate, n., 2.
(v.t.) To make red; to redden.
(n.) The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
(n.) That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.
(a.) Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Ruby is a feminine given name

salmon

Any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn.
A tributary of the Snake River in Idaho.
- synonyms: Salmon River
Flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae.
A pale pinkish orange color.

(a.) Of a reddish yellow or orange color, like that of the flesh of the salmon.
(v.) Any one of several species of fishes of the genus Salmo and allied genera. The common salmon (Salmo salar) of Northern Europe and Eastern North America, and the California salmon or quinnat, are the most important species. They are extensively preserved for food. See Quinnat.
(pl.) of Salmon.
(v.) A reddish yellow or orange color, like the flesh of the salmon.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Salmon is a masculine given name