trouts

Variant of trout

noun pl. trout or trouts

  1. 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
  2. any of several other troutlike fishes

Origin: ME troute < OE truht < LL tructus, tructa < Gr trōktēs, kind of fish < trōgein, to gnaw: see troglodyte

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