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salmon trout

noun

  1. a European trout, Salmo trutta.
  2. the lake trout, Salvelinus namaycush.
  3. the steelhead.
  4. any large trout.


salmon trout

noun

  1. any of various large trout, esp the sea trout
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Word History and Origins

Origin of salmon trout1

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
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Example Sentences

Customers can opt for baited hooks to snag rainbow trout, salmon trout, fluke, shrimp, flounder, farmed striped bass, rockfish, lobster or abalone swimming in the pools.

Does a brook trout ever become a salmon trout?

In the most arresting version I had, salmon trout was gift-wrapped in a papery sheet of oboro kombu seaweed that looked like green marble.

Nearly all were brook trout, but two or three silvery salmon trout among them had struck quite as gamely.

It is of glassy transparency, of great depth, and abounds in mountain trout, salmon, and salmon trout.

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