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ˈsea-trout
1. The Salmo trutta, = salmon-trout 1; also the bull or grey trout, S. eriox.
1745tr. Egede's Descr. Greenland 91 Small Salmon or Sea-Trout of different Kinds and Sizes. 1769–76Pennant Brit. Zool. III. 259. 1875 F. Francis in Encycl. Brit. II. 41/1 Next to the salmon ranks in value for sport the sea-trout. Of these there are two kinds: 1st, The salmon-trout (Salmo trutta); and 2d, The bull or grey trout (Salmo eriox).
2. In U.S. and Australia applied to other fishes.
1859–62Sir J. Richardson, etc. Mus. Nat. Hist. (1868) II. 126 The Sea-trouts of Australian seas belong to the genus Arripis. 1884Goode, etc. Nat. Hist. Aquatic Anim. 267 (Hexagrammus decagrammus..)... From San Francisco southward, the names ‘Rock Trout’ and ‘Sea Trout’ are common. Ibid. 362 With the other members of the genus [the Squeteague] is spoken of under the name ‘Sea Trout’. 1891Century Dict., Sea trout, 1. Any catadromous trout or char, as the common brook-trout of the United States, Salvelinus fontinalis.
3. attrib.
1875F. Francis in Encycl. Brit. II. 41/1 A day's sea-trout fishing. 1904W. M. Gallichan Fishing & Shooting in Spain 28, I was soon trying to lure him with a sea-trout fly. |