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brown trout

noun

  1. a common trout, Salmo trutta, of northern European streams.


brown trout

noun

  1. 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

Anglers should bring their rod and fish the East Fork of the Jemez for brown trout, and hikers will enjoy walking along the riverside trail.

Pack your fishing rod and catch a few brown trout for a fresh dinner.

Spend the day fishing for big brown trout and kayaking in the lake or trekking in the John Muir Wilderness.

He began by dumping out into a worthless and landlocked bass-pond every brown trout in the hatchery.

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.

The pools of the Fell becks abound at such times with speckled brown trout, and are visited by another poacher—the otter.

It is clean-cut in shape, perhaps rather lither than the brown trout, and when large it is not so deep.

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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