brown trout

noun

: a speckled European trout (Salmo trutta) widely introduced as a game fish

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This includes native fish like cutthroat and rainbow trout, along with the European brown trout that were introduced here during the late 19th century. Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 20 Feb. 2025 Fish kept in hatcheries will provide 378,000 brook trout eggs, 448,000 lake trout eggs, 2.6 million brown trout eggs and 1.5 million rainbow trout eggs. Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 19 Dec. 2024 Wary old brown trout the size of a person’s thigh, granddaddy animals that would never otherwise condescend to feed by daylight upon floating insects, came up off the bottom for this banquet. David Quammen, Outside Online, 29 Nov. 2024 The species was further diluted when fishermen, hoping to boost the river’s overall fish population, introduced brown trout, creating a hybrid species. Ellen Ruppel Shell, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for brown trout

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First Known Use

1726, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of brown trout was in 1726

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brown trout

noun
: a speckled European trout widely introduced as a game fish

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