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brown trout
noun
- a common trout, Salmo trutta, of northern European streams.
brown trout
noun
- a common brownish variety of the trout Salmo trutta that occurs in the rivers of N Europe and has been successfully introduced in North America Compare sea trout
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Word History and Origins
Origin of brown trout1
First recorded in 1885–90
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Example Sentences
He began by dumping out into a worthless and landlocked bass-pond every brown trout in the hatchery.
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Nosing about, Sue found a two-pound brown trout that had been caught and crushed in the grinding ice and cast up on the bank.
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The pools of the Fell becks abound at such times with speckled brown trout, and are visited by another poacher—the otter.
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It is clean-cut in shape, perhaps rather lither than the brown trout, and when large it is not so deep.
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Beside a brown coated stone in the shadowed stream a brown trout watches for the puffs that slay the May-flies.
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