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trout

/tɹaʊt/ noun B1
  1. Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once. (countable, uncountable) · Many anglers consider trout to be the archetypical quarry.

Plural trout

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Dipping marten, plumping trout,
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 11 · C1
It was splendid to fish for trout over the bridge and the two girls learned to row themselves about in the little flat-bottomed dory Mr.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 220 · C1
Gardiner, though seldom able to indulge the taste, was very fond of fishing, and was so much engaged in watching the occasional appearance of some trout in the water, and talking to the man about them, that he advanced but little.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 284 · B2
Then he had eaten some without saying a word more; Danglars, therefore, concluded that such luxuries were common at the table of the illustrious descendant of the Cavalcanti, who most likely in Lucca fed upon trout brought from Switzerland, and lobsters sent from England, by the same means used by the count to bring the lampreys from Lake Fusaro, and the sterlet from the Volga.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 678 · C1

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