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

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

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

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

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

When that Kri-karee, invisibly attached to my line, went floating down the stream, the ouananiche was surprised.

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