silver trout

noun

1. a variety of cutthroat trout, Salmo clarki henshawi, having silvery coloration, inhabiting Lake Tahoe.
2. the kokanee.

Example Sentences

Yeats' work revolves around the figure of a man who catches a silver trout that becomes a "glimmering girl" who disappears into "the brightening air" as magically as she appeared.

From Los Angeles Times

A silver trout ornamented the crest of his greathelm, twin to the one painted on his shield.

From Literature

One of my own memories is of standing shoulder to shoulder with hundreds of other kids on opening day at Phoenix Lake, in Northern California, lines kinked and crossed and tangled, tiny silver trout flipping onto the banks.

From New York Times

Sometimes in the hazy distance might be detected a string of circular stains of a blacker colour than the rest--tarns in the moorland, home of the silver trout.

From Project Gutenberg

I went out to the hazel wood Because a fire was in my head, And cut and peeled a hazel wand, And hooked a berry to a thread; And when white moths were on the wing, And moth-like stars were flickering out, I dropped the berry in a stream, And caught a little silver trout.

From Project Gutenberg