bull trout

noun

1

British : sea trout

especially : a large old sea trout

2

: a char (Salvelinus confluentus) of cool waters of the northwestern U.S. and western Canada that is olive-green to bronze above with yellow to reddish-orange spots and was formerly considered to belong to the same species as the Dolly Varden

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