trout : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a delicious freshwater food fish
  brook trout.
  
• noun North American freshwater trout; introduced in Europe
  brook trout; Salvelinus fontinalis.
  

WordNet

• noun speckled trout of European rivers; introduced in North America
  brown trout; Salmo trutta.
  

WordNet

Bull" trout`

Definitions

1. (Zoöl.) (a) In England, a large salmon trout of several species, as Salmo trutta and S. Cambricus, which ascend rivers; -- called also sea trout. (b) Salvelinus malma of California and Oregon; -- called also Dolly Varden trout and red-spotted trout. (c) The huso or salmon of the Danube.

Webster 1913

• (Zoöl.), a trout of northwest America; called also bull trout, malma, and red-spotted trout. See Malma.

Webster 1913

• noun flesh of large trout of northern lakes
  
• noun large fork-tailed trout of lakes of Canada and the northern United States
  Salvelinus namaycush; lake trout.
  

WordNet

• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of trout and salmon; in Europe, esp. Salmo fario; in the United States, esp. Salvelinus namaycush of the Great Lakes, and of various lakes in New York, Eastern Maine, and Canada. A large variety of brook trout (S. fontinalis), inhabiting many lakes in New England, is also called lake trout. See Namaycush.

Webster 1913

• noun flesh of Pacific trout that migrate from salt to fresh water
  
• noun found in Pacific coastal waters and streams from lower California to Alaska
  Salmo gairdneri.
  

WordNet

• (Zoöl.), a bright-colored trout (Salmoirideus), native of the mountains of California, but now extensively introduced into the Eastern States. Japan, and other countries; called also brook trout, mountain trout, and golden trout.

Webster 1913

• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Hexagrammus, family Chiradæ, native of the North Pacific coasts; called also sea trout, boregat, bodieron, and starling.

Webster 1913

• noun flesh of marine trout that migrate from salt to fresh water
  salmon trout.
  
• noun large fork-tailed trout of lakes of Canada and the northern United States
  Salvelinus namaycush; lake trout.
  
• noun speckled trout of European rivers; introduced in North America
  brown trout; Salmo trutta.
  

WordNet

• . (Zoöl.) (a) The European sea trout (Salmo trutta). It resembles the salmon, but is smaller, and has smaller and more numerous scales. (b) The American namaycush . (c) A name that is also applied locally to the adult black spotted trout (Salmo purpuratus), and to the steel head and other large trout of the Pacific coast.

Webster 1913

• noun flesh of marine trout that migrate from salt to fresh water
  salmon trout.
  
• noun any of several sciaenid fishes of North American coastal waters
  
• noun silvery marine variety of brown trout that migrates to fresh water to spawn
  

WordNet

Sea" trout`

Definitions

1. (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of several species of true trouts which descend rivers and enter the sea after spawning, as the European bull trout and salmon trout, and the eastern American spotted trout. (b) The common squeteague, and the spotted squeteague. (c) A California fish of the family Chiridæ, especially Hexagrammus decagrammus; -- called also spotted rock trout. See Rock trout, under Rock. (d) A California sciænoid fish (Cynoscion nobilis); -- called also white sea bass.

Webster 1913

• (Zoöl.) See Trout.

Webster 1913

• noun a delicious freshwater food fish
  brook trout.
  
• noun North American freshwater trout; introduced in Europe
  brook trout; Salvelinus fontinalis.
  

WordNet

• . (Zoöl.) (a) The common American brook trout . See Trout. (b) The rainbow trout.

Webster 1913

• noun weakfish of southern Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of United States
  spotted weakfish; spotted squeateague; Cynoscion nebulosus.
  

WordNet

• (Zoöl.), the squeteague.

Webster 1913

• noun eastern North American dogtooth having solitary yellow flowers marked with brown or purple and spotted interiors
  amberbell; Erythronium americanum; yellow adder's tongue.
  

WordNet

• (Zoöl.), a small fresh-water American fish (Percopsis guttatus), allied to the trout, but resembling a perch in its scales and mouth.

Webster 1913

Trout"-col`ored adjective

Definitions

1. White, with spots of black, bay, or sorrel; as, a trout-colored horse.

Webster 1913

• (Zoöl.), the white weakfish, or silver squeteague (Cynoscion nothus), of the Southern United States.

Webster 1913