brook trout

noun

1. a delicious freshwater food fish

• Syn: ↑speckled trout

• Hypernyms: ↑freshwater fish

• Part Holonyms: ↑speckled trout, ↑Salvelinus fontinalis

2. North American freshwater trout; introduced in Europe

• Syn: ↑speckled trout, ↑Salvelinus fontinalis

• Hypernyms: ↑trout

• Member Holonyms: ↑Salvelinus, ↑genus Salvelinus

• Part Meronyms: ↑speckled trout

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noun

: the common speckled char (Salvelinus fontinalis) of eastern No. America highly esteemed as a sport and food fish, widely distributed in cold flowing waters, and introduced in many places outside its natural range — called also speckled trout, squaretail

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1. Also called speckled trout. a common trout, Salvelinus fontinalis, of eastern North America. See illus. under trout.

2. See brown trout.

[1830-40, Amer.]

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brook trout noun

An orig N American char introduced into Europe

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Main Entry: ↑brook

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brook trout,

1. a freshwater, speckled game fish of the eastern part of North America; speckled trout.

2. a north European freshwater trout; the brown trout.

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n. see char IV