trout
pronunciation
How to pronounce trout in British English:
UK [traʊt]
How to pronounce trout in American English:
US [traʊt]
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- Noun:
- flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes
- any of various game and food fishes of cool fresh waters mostly smaller than typical salmons
Word Origin
- trout (n.)
- Old English truht "trout," in part from Old French truite, both from Late Latin tructa, perhaps from Greek troktes "a kind of sea fish," literally "nibbler," from trogein "to gnaw," from PIE *tro-, from root *tere- (1) (see throw (v.)). In late 17c. slang, trusty trout was used in a sense of "confidential friend."
Example
- 1. Personally , I wouldn 't think of eating a trout lily .
- 2. Dr bradley has launched a four-pronged attack on the myostatin in his trout .
- 3. Today she raises tilapia and trout . She feeds them once a day .
- 4. Coho salmon and trout , which chile also produces , are not susceptible to isa .
- 5. He had interviewed a man who trapped muskrats in sewage lagoons and another who had once caught an albino trout .