sea trout

noun

1. flesh of marine trout that migrate from salt to fresh water

• Syn: ↑salmon trout

• Hypernyms: ↑trout

• Part Holonyms: ↑brown trout, ↑salmon trout, ↑Salmo trutta

2. any of several sciaenid fishes of North American coastal waters

• Hypernyms: ↑sciaenid fish, ↑sciaenid

• Hyponyms: ↑weakfish, ↑Cynoscion regalis, ↑spotted weakfish, ↑spotted sea trout, ↑spotted squeateague, ↑Cynoscion nebulosus

3. silvery marine variety of brown trout that migrates to fresh water to spawn

• Hypernyms: ↑brown trout, ↑salmon trout, ↑Salmo trutta

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noun

1. : any of various trouts or chars that as adults inhabit the sea but ascend rivers to spawn; especially : a European fish (Salmo trutta) that resembles the salmon but is smaller, weaker, and with smaller scales, that occurs in numerous subspecies in different regions which are sometimes considered separate species, and that may often become landlocked

2. : any of various marine fishes that more or less resemble trouts: as

a. : weakfish 1

b. : greenling 1

c. : the queenfish of California

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1. any of various species of trout inhabiting salt water, as the salmon trout, Salmo trutta.

2. any of several fishes of the genus Cynoscion.

[1735-45]

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sea trout noun

1. The salmon trout (Salmo trutta)

2. Extended to various other fishes of the genus Cynoscion, of US coastal waters

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Main Entry: ↑sea

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sea trout,

1. any one of various species of trout which spend part of their life in salt water, such as the brown trout of Europe.

2. any one of several weakfishes.

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n.

1) a troutlike marine fish of the drum family occurring in the western Atlantic. ● Genus Cynoscion, family Sciaenidae: several species, including the weakfish

2) Brit. a European brown trout of a salmonlike migratory race. Also called salmon trout. ● Salmo trutta trutta, family Salmonidae