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

We made our casts, and I quickly landed a twenty-inch ouananiche and Richards hooked a big trout that, after much play, was brought ashore. 

From The Long Labrador Trail by Wallace, Dillon

What forest lore; what ways of cunning from the shy forest dwellers; what tricks of line and bait for the capricious trout, the pugnacious ouananiche, the lazy pickerel!

From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)

Who hath worked the chosen water where the ouananiche is waiting, Or the sea-trout's jumping—crazy for the fly?

From The Lure of the Labrador Wild by Wallace, Dillon

There was the old campground on the point, where I had tented so often with my lady Greygown, fishing for ouananiche, the famous land-locked salmon of Lake St. John.

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

I felt sure that Ferdinand was going to do the trick in precisely this way with my ouananiche.

From Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things by Van Dyke, Henry