trout

[trout]

noun

plural

trout ,

plural

trouts .

1. any of several game fishes of the genus Salmo, related to the salmon.

2. any of various game fishes of the salmon family of the genus Salvelinus.

3. any of several unrelated fishes, as a bass, Micropterus salmoides, a drum of the genus Cynoscion, or a greenling of the genus Hexagrammos.

trout

/ traʊt /

noun

1. any of various game fishes, esp Salmo trutta and related species, mostly of fresh water in northern regions: family Salmonidae (salmon). They resemble salmon but are smaller and spotted

2. any of various similar or related fishes, such as a sea trout

3. any of various fishes of the Salmo or Oncorhynchus genera smaller than the salmon, esp European and American varieties naturalized in Australia

4. informal,  an irritating or grumpy person, esp a woman

Other Word Forms

• troutless adjective
• troutlike adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of trout¹

before 1050; Middle English trou ( h ) te, Old English truht < Latin tructa < Greek trṓktēs gnawer, a sea fish, equivalent to trṓg ( ein ) to gnaw + -tēs agent noun suffix

Word History and Origins

Origin of trout¹

Old English trūht , from Late Latin tructa , from Greek troktēs sharp-toothed fish

Example Sentences

The lower part of her face is being injected with tiny fragments of DNA, known as polynucleotides, which have been extracted from either trout or salmon sperm.

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Fish passage has also been opened for other species recorded in the river, including the critically endangered European eel as well as grayling, trout, lamprey, minnow, stone loach, and bullhead.

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Hedge fund guys such as himself worked uptown and so exited Grand Central to the north, where taxis appeared haphazardly and out of nowhere to meet them, like farm trout rising to corn kernels.

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Today, water continues gushing from wells into concrete ponds filled with trout, and then flows through a channel toward the L.A.

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The group continued to move the fish in the evening and the following morning finding species including salmon, trout and stickleback.

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