SPECKLED TROUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does speckled trout mean? 

• SPECKLED TROUT (noun)
  The noun SPECKLED TROUT has 2 senses:

1. a delicious freshwater food fish

2. North American freshwater trout; introduced in Europe

  Familiarity information: SPECKLED TROUT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPECKLED TROUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A delicious freshwater food fish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

brook trout; speckled trout

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

freshwater fish (flesh of fish from fresh water used as food)

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

brook trout; Salvelinus fontinalis; speckled trout (North American freshwater trout; introduced in Europe)

Sense 2

Meaning:

North American freshwater trout; introduced in Europe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

brook trout; Salvelinus fontinalis; speckled trout

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

trout (any of various game and food fishes of cool fresh waters mostly smaller than typical salmons)

Meronyms (parts of "speckled trout"):

brook trout; speckled trout (a delicious freshwater food fish)

Holonyms ("speckled trout" is a member of...):

genus Salvelinus; Salvelinus (brook trout)

 Context examples 

They paused, however, at the bridge, and, leaning their elbows upon the stonework, they stood looking down at their own faces in the glassy stream, and at the swift flash of speckled trout against the tawny gravel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)