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ˈsalmon-ˈtrout
1. A fish of the species Salmo trutta, resembling the salmon, found in rivers of northern Europe.
1421Rolls of Parlt. IV. 132/1 Frie de Samon-Trought. 1540Rutland MSS. (1905) IV. 302 A great salmon trowtte. 1668Charleton Onomast. 155 Trutta Salmoneta..a Salmon-Trout. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) I. 17 There is also a kind of salmon-trouts called Gangfische. 1884Sat. Rev. 12 July 61/1 Jim, the black cook boy..caught a twenty-pound salmon-trout with bait.
2. In U.S. and N.S.W. applied to other fishes (see quots.).
1705Boston News-Let. 15–22 Oct. 2/1 Our men were refresh'd with variety of Fish, especially Salmon Trouts, some whereof 2 foot long. 1806W. Clark Jrnl. 13 Mar. in Orig. Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1905) IV. 166 The Salmon Trout are seldom more than two feet in length. 1848E. Bryant What I saw in California xi. 158 He had taken with his hook about a dozen salmon-trout. 1882J. E. Tenison-Woods Fish N.S.W. 35 Arripis salar,..is in the adult state the salmon of the Australian fishermen, and their salmon trout is the young. 1884Goode, etc. Nat. Hist. Aquatic Anim. 468 According to the latest system..the second group [of the old genus Salmo] includes the Chars, or Red-spotted Trout, and the gray-spotted species known as Salmon Trout, or Lake Trout. These are assigned to the genus Salvelinus. Ibid. 474 The Steel⁓head—Salmo Gairdneri. Large individuals are often called ‘Salmon Trout’. 1939Nat. Geogr. Mag. Feb. 212/2 Both of these species [sc. Dolly Varden and blackspotted trout] are known in some localities as ‘salmon trout’. |