trout´like´

trout´like´
trout «trowt», noun, plural trouts or (collectively) trout.
1. any one of certain food and game fishes of the same family as the salmon. Trout are found chiefly in cool, fresh waters, although some migrate from the sea to spawn, such as the rainbow trout or steelhead, the cutthroat trout, and the brown trout.
2. any one of a group of similar and related fishes, such as the Dolly Varden, the brook trout, and the lake trout.
3. any one of certain fishes which resemble a trout to some extent, such as the trout perch.
[partly Old English trūht Late Latin; partly < Old French troite, truite < Late Latin tructa, or trocta, probably < Greek trēs a kind of fish (literally) gnawer < tr to gnaw]
tout´less, adjective.
trout´like´, adjective.

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