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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A freshwater food and game fish (Salvelinus namaycush) having a dark body with light-colored spots and a forked tail fin, native to North America and widely introduced elsewhere.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fish, Galaxias auratus, of the family Galaxidæ, found in Tasmania.
- noun The common salmon-trout of western North America, Salmo purpuratus; the Rocky Mountain brook-trout; the Yellowstone trout.
- noun The Mackinaw trout, Salvelinus namaycush, more fully called the great lake-trout; the longe of Vermont; the togue of Maine.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A large species of
trout found inlakes in North America, Salvelinus namaycush
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large fork-tailed trout of lakes of Canada and the northern United States
- noun flesh of large trout of northern lakes
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hernesheir commented on the word lake trout
Variously known as Mackinaw trout, namaycush, togue, touladi, sand trout, paperbellies, leans, fats, siscowets, half-breeds, paper bellies, mooneyes, humpers, porkers, reefers and redfins.
July 22, 2010