Definition of Brook trout

1. Noun. A delicious freshwater food fish.

Exact synonyms: Speckled Trout
Group relationships: Salvelinus Fontinalis, Speckled Trout
Generic synonyms: Freshwater Fish

2. Noun. North American freshwater trout; introduced in Europe.
Exact synonyms: Salvelinus Fontinalis, Speckled Trout
Generic synonyms: Trout
Group relationships: Genus Salvelinus, Salvelinus
Terms within: Speckled Trout

Definition of Brook trout

1. Noun. (British) A fish of the subspecies ''Salmo trutta fario'', the brown trout. ¹

2. Noun. A fish of the species ''Salvelinus fontinalis''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Brook Trout

broodingly
broodings
broodless
broodmare
broodmares
broods
broodstocks
broody
broody hen
brook lamprey
brook lampreys
brook mint
brook thistle
brook trout (current term)
brook trouts
brooked
brookie
brookies
brooking
brookite
brookites
brooklet
brooklets
brooklike
brooklime
brooklimes
brookside
brooksides

Literary usage of Brook trout

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"The orange edge of the adipose fin, characteristic of the brook trout, is wanting in the Loch Leven trout. The mouth in the latter is said to be smaller, ..."

2. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1914)
"THE RAPIDITY OF THE INVOLUTION OF ACTIVE THYROID HYPERPLASIAS OF brook trout FOLLOWING THE USE OF FRESH SEA FISH AS A FOOD.* BY DAVID MARINE, MD (From the ..."

3. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents, Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"THE brook trout Teacher's Story "Uf and down the brook I ran, where beneath the banks so steep, Lie the spotted trout asleep."—WHITTIER. ..."

4. Salmon and Trout by Dean Sage, Charles Haskins Townsend, Hugh McCormick Smith, William Charles Harris (1904)
"Below the southern line of the state of New York there appears to be, however, a barrier of warmer water into which the brook trout does not enter, ..."

5. Annual Report by New York Zoological Society, Tennyson Society (1906)
"brook trout, SALVELINUS FONTINALIS. In the radiograph of Necturus maculatus the very slight ossification of the shoulder girdle and the attachment of the ..."

6. The Cumulative Book Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1901)
"brook trout and the determined angler. Bradford. C: B. net (Юс. Grow Pub. Co., Richmond Hill, NY Modern angler. Otter,psend.$l.imp. ..."

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