gravlax

grav lax |ˈgrävˌläks ˈɡrɑvˌlɑks | ▶noun a Scandinavian dish of dry-cured salmon marinated in herbs. ORIGIN Swedish, from grav ‘trench ’ + lax ‘salmon ’ (from the former practice of burying the salmon in salt in a hole in the ground ).

gravlax

gravlax |ˈgravlaks |(also gravadlax ) ▶noun [ mass noun ] a Scandinavian dish of dry-cured salmon marinated in herbs. ORIGIN Swedish, from grav ‘trench ’ + lax ‘salmon ’ (from the former practice of burying the salmon in salt in a hole in the ground ).