TROUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trout mean? 

• TROUT (noun)
  The noun TROUT has 2 senses:

1. flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes

2. any of various game and food fishes of cool fresh waters mostly smaller than typical salmons

  Familiarity information: TROUT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TROUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("trout" is a kind of...):

fish (the flesh of fish used as food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trout"):

rainbow trout (flesh of Pacific trout that migrate from salt to fresh water)

salmon trout; sea trout (flesh of marine trout that migrate from salt to fresh water)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of various game and food fishes of cool fresh waters mostly smaller than typical salmons

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("trout" is a kind of...):

food fish (any fish used for food by human beings)

salmonid (soft-finned fishes of cold and temperate waters)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trout"):

brown trout; Salmo trutta; salmon trout (speckled trout of European rivers; introduced in North America)

rainbow trout; Salmo gairdneri (found in Pacific coastal waters and streams from lower California to Alaska)

lake trout; salmon trout; Salvelinus namaycush (large fork-tailed trout of lakes of Canada and the northern United States)

brook trout; Salvelinus fontinalis; speckled trout (North American freshwater trout; introduced in Europe)

 Context examples 

Species ranging from fruit flies to trout can learn about food using social transmission.

(Birds learn from each other’s ‘disgust’, enabling insects to evolve bright colours, University of Cambridge)

Then came a heavy blow, and down he fell in the middle of the moonlit road, flapping and jumping among the dust like a trout new landed.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau’s example.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), docosapentaenoic acid (DPA), and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) are found in seafood, including fatty fish (such as salmon, tuna, and trout) and shellfish (such as crab, mussels, and oysters).

(Omega-3s linked with lower risk of fatal heart attacks, NIH)

Her niece was, therefore, obliged to submit, and they took their way towards the house on the opposite side of the river, in the nearest direction; but their progress was slow, for Mr. Gardiner, though seldom able to indulge the taste, was very fond of fishing, and was so much engaged in watching the occasional appearance of some trout in the water, and talking to the man about them, that he advanced but little.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Occasional brooks with pebbly bottoms and fern-draped banks gurgled down the shallow gorges in the hill, and offered good camping-grounds every evening on the banks of some rock-studded pool, where swarms of little blue-backed fish, about the size and shape of English trout, gave us a delicious supper.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Likewise they decree the things that are not shop and which may be talked about, and those things are the latest operas, latest novels, cards, billiards, cocktails, automobiles, horse shows, trout fishing, tuna-fishing, big-game shooting, yacht sailing, and so forth—and mark you, these are the things the idlers know.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They paused, however, at the bridge, and, leaning their elbows upon the stonework, they stood looking down at their own faces in the glassy stream, and at the swift flash of speckled trout against the tawny gravel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I taught him his exercises, for he never loved the sight of a book, and he in turn made me box and wrestle, tickle trout on the Adur, and snare rabbits on Ditching Down, for his hands were as active as his brain was slow.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now and again a peaty amber colored stream rippled across their way, with ferny over-grown banks, where the blue kingfisher flitted busily from side to side, or the gray and pensive heron, swollen with trout and dignity, stood ankle-deep among the sedges.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)