cutthroat trout
a spotted trout, Salmo clarkii, of coastal streams of western North America, having a reddish streak on each side of the throat.
Origin of cutthroat trout
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How to use cutthroat trout in a sentence
On the lake a cutthroat trout breaks the surface; pieces of it follow him into the air.
Pete Dexter’s Indelible Portrait of Author Norman Maclean | Pete Dexter | March 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI went fishing, and in the first pool of the river below the upper lake, caught several two- and three-pound cutthroat trout.
Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park | James Willard SchultzThey were cutthroat trout, silvery-sided and marked with the red slash along their gills that gave them their name.
Tales of lonely trails | Zane GreyThey all were about the same size, just under two pounds, all native or cutthroat trout.
The Young Alaskans on the Missouri | Emerson HoughIn the Belly River proper, rainbow and cutthroat trout and grayling are plentiful.
Glacier National Park [Montana] | United States Dept. of the Interior
Besides them these lakes are full of cutthroat trout, and what the whites call Dolly Varden trout, and whitefish.
Rising Wolf the White Blackfoot | James Willard Schultz
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