trout

/traʊt/

/traʊt/

Other forms: trouts

A trout is a kind of fish that lives mainly in lakes and rivers. People like to eat trout, and so do eagles and brown bears.

Trout are freshwater fish, although some species, including rainbow trout, divide their time between fresh water and the ocean. The coloring of an individual type of trout depends on where it lives, since its skin works as a kind of camouflage. If it's spent a few years in the ocean, a trout's skin often turns silvery. The source of the word trout is thought to be the Greek troktes, "nibbler."

Definitions of trout

1. noun

   any of various game and food fishes of cool fresh waters mostly smaller than typical salmons
   types:

   Salmo trutta, brown trout, salmon trout

   speckled trout of European rivers; introduced in North America

   Salmo gairdneri, rainbow trout

   found in Pacific coastal waters and streams from lower California to Alaska

   Salvelinus namaycush, lake trout, salmon trout

   large fork-tailed trout of lakes of Canada and the northern United States

   Salvelinus fontinalis, brook trout, speckled trout

   North American freshwater trout; introduced in Europe

   sea trout

   silvery marine variety of brown trout that migrates to fresh water to spawn

   type of:

   food fish

   any fish used for food by human beings

   salmonid

   soft-finned fishes of cold and temperate waters
2. noun

   flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes
   types:

   rainbow trout

   flesh of Pacific trout that migrate from salt to fresh water

   salmon trout, sea trout

   flesh of marine trout that migrate from salt to fresh water

   type of:

   fish

   the flesh of fish used as food