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

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

From The Forest by White, Stewart Edward

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

Every morning and evening, Greygown and I would go out for ouananiche, and sometimes we caught plenty and sometimes few, but we never came back without a good catch of happiness.

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

Accordingly I put on a Professor and a Parmacheene Belle; but this combination of learning and beauty had no attraction for the ouananiche.

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

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 Wallace, Dillon