ouananiche

British  

/ ˌwɑːnəˈniːʃ /

noun

1. a landlocked variety of the Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, found in lakes in SE Canada

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Etymology

Origin of ouananiche

from Canadian French, from Montagnais wananish, diminutive of wanans salmon

Example Sentences

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ouananiche

"Do you know the chosen water where the ouananiche is waiting?"

From The Forest by Stewart Edward White

It proved to be an ouananiche that measured twenty-seven and one-half inches in length by eleven and one-quarter inches in girth.

From The Long Labrador Trail by Dillon Wallace

The ouananiche in the island pool were superb, astonishing, incredible.

From Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness by Henry Van Dyke

Who hath worked the chosen waters where the ouananiche is waiting?

From Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

Then we’ll spring the ouananiche on ’cm and they’ll faint. 

From The Long Labrador Trail by Dillon Wallace