brook trout
Also called speckled trout. a common trout, Salvelinus fontinalis, of eastern North America.
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How to use brook trout in a sentence
Although a bold biter, the brook trout is wary, and usually requires all the skill of an experienced fisherman to capture it.
The great attraction, however, of this region is the brook trout, with which the streams and lakes abound.
A Year in the Fields | John BurroughsThe streams, he informed me, were well supplied with large minnows, by which I afterwards ascertained he meant the brook trout.
Letters from the Alleghany Mountains | Charles LanmanHe is built something like the brook-trout, except for a much sharper head and wider fins and tail.
Tales of Fishes | Zane GreyThe morning ride and the thought of a dinner of brook trout on the mountain had sharpened the appetites of the lovers.
The Harris-Ingram Experiment | Charles E. Bolton
British Dictionary definitions for brook trout
a North American freshwater trout, Salvelinus fontinalis, introduced in Europe and valued as a food and game fish: Also called: speckled trout
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