[trout] 
) trout, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) trouts. | 1. | any of several game fishes of the genus Salmo, related to the salmon. Compare brown trout, cutthroat trout, rainbow trout. |
| 2. | any of various game fishes of the salmon family of the genus Salvelinus. Compare brook trout (def. 1), char 2 , Dolly Varden (def. 4), lake trout. |
| 3. | any of several unrelated fishes, as a bass, Micropterus salmoides, a drum of the genus Cynoscion, or a greenling of the genus Hexagrammos. |
ktēs gnawer, a sea fish, equiv. to trg(ein) to gnaw + -tēs agent n. suffix| trout (trout) n. pl. trout or trouts
[Middle English troute, from Old English trūht, from Late Latin trūcta, perhaps from Greek trōktēs, a kind of sea fish with sharp teeth, from trōgein, to gnaw; see terə-1 in Indo-European roots.] |