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TROUT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various game and food fishes of cool fresh waters mostly smaller than typical salmons

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("trout" is a kind of...):

food fish (any fish used for food by human beings)

salmonid (soft-finned fishes of cold and temperate waters)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trout"):

brown trout; Salmo trutta; salmon trout (speckled trout of European rivers; introduced in North America)

rainbow trout; Salmo gairdneri (found in Pacific coastal waters and streams from lower California to Alaska)

lake trout; salmon trout; Salvelinus namaycush (large fork-tailed trout of lakes of Canada and the northern United States)

brook trout; Salvelinus fontinalis; speckled trout (North American freshwater trout; introduced in Europe)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("trout" is a kind of...):

fish (the flesh of fish used as food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trout"):

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)

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 Context examples: 

I have been up on St. John’s Common upon a dark night, and, lying among the bracken, I have seen as many as seventy mules and a man at the head of each go flitting past me as silently as trout in a stream.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She whom I had known as the play actress of Anstey Cross became the dowager Lady Avon; whilst Boy Jim, as dear to me now as when we harried birds’ nests and tickled trout together, is now Lord Avon, beloved by his tenantry, the finest sportsman and the most popular man from the north of the Weald to the Channel.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)