trout
trout (tro̵ut)
noun pl. trout or trouts
- any salmonid; esp., any of various food and game fishes that are usually speckled and found chiefly in fresh water, as the brown trout, rainbow trout, brook trout, and lake trout
- any of several other troutlike fishes
Etymology: ME troute < OE truht < LL tructus, tructa < Gr trōktēs, kind of fish < trōgein, to gnaw: see troglodyte
trout
n.
Varieties of trout include: speckled, brook, rainbow, mountain, sea, river, lake, silver, black-spotted, Dolly Varden, cutthroat, lake, salmon, steelhead, blue-backed, tiger, brown, Galway, golden, Tahoe, Rocky Mountain, Yellowstone;
Converse of object
- catch: Plenty of fit trout caught with the best a golden brown of about 1lb.
- poach: He also learned how to poach trout and salmon and this was the start of his lifelong love of fishing.
Preposition: in
- lochs: There are salmon in six beats, and excellent brown trout in all lochs.
- loch: A Tale of Two Fish Our October 2001 contribution from Jon Beer There were once two trout in a Scottish loch.
Adjective modifier
- brown: Boat fishing for brown trout on the Lily Loch.
- ferox: Long recognized for its trout, indeed ferox trout, it is gaining a growing reputation for coarse angling.
- wild: The river Isla is populated with wild brown trout along with several smaller species of fish.
- migratory: If those really were migratory trout, two nights ago, they're well migrated now.
- grilled: Grilled trout and salad 1 grilled trout with 4 new potatoes and salad with fat-free dressing.
Modifies a noun
- fishing: The Glass trout fishing is from April through May.
- fishery: The venue is a trout fishery which allows access to coarse anglers in the winter months.
- angling: Most Highland trout angling is ` loch style ' done with traditional floating line.
- lochs: FISHING Choose your kind of fishing from: Fully stocked trout lochs at the Fishery.
- filet: Break each trout filet in half and lay of the top of the rice.
- pellet: All their fish either came to fake maize or ASAP boilies fished over a bed of trout pellets.
Noun used with modifier
- rainbow: Chelsea Bell with the 8lb rainbow trout she caught on her first fishing trip.
- ferox: Radio tracking ferox trout The pilot study had been a resounding success.
- sea: Anglers fishing for the sea trout should ensure they hold the relevant EA rod license.
- brook: Guides point out the best places to fish for the Bow River brook trout.
- loch: Farmhouse for 8/10 with hill loch trout fishing from £ 750 pw.
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
[A Gustave Courbet] portrait of a trouthas more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.
Where the pools are bright and deep, Where the grey trout lies asleep, Up the river and o'er the lea, That's the way for Billy and me.
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