trout noun (FISH) - definition in British English Dictionary & Thesaurus

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/traʊt/ n

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[C or U] (plural trout or trouts) a fish that is a popular food, especially a brown type that lives in rivers and lakes or a silver type that lives in the sea but returns to rivers to reproduce

Thousands of young salmon and trout have been killed by the pollution.

Loch Leven is famous for its trout fishing.

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[U] the flesh of this fish eaten as food

I love smoked trout, don't you?

(Definition of trout noun (FISH) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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