SEA TROUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sea trout mean? 

• SEA TROUT (noun)
  The noun SEA TROUT has 3 senses:

1. flesh of marine trout that migrate from salt to fresh water

2. any of several sciaenid fishes of North American coastal waters

3. silvery marine variety of brown trout that migrates to fresh water to spawn

  Familiarity information: SEA TROUT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEA TROUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flesh of marine trout that migrate from salt to fresh water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

salmon trout; sea trout

Hypernyms ("sea trout" is a kind of...):

trout (flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes)

Holonyms ("sea trout" is a part of...):

brown trout; Salmo trutta; salmon trout (speckled trout of European rivers; introduced in North America)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of several sciaenid fishes of North American coastal waters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("sea trout" is a kind of...):

sciaenid; sciaenid fish (widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sea trout"):

Cynoscion regalis; weakfish (food and game fish of North American coastal waters with a mouth from which hooks easily tear out)

Cynoscion nebulosus; spotted sea trout; spotted squeateague; spotted weakfish (weakfish of southern Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of United States)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Silvery marine variety of brown trout that migrates to fresh water to spawn

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("sea trout" is a kind of...):

brown trout; Salmo trutta; salmon trout (speckled trout of European rivers; introduced in North America)