lake trout
- noun
- /leɪk traʊt/
- US
:
carne de trucha de lago
- After a long day of fishing, we grilled our fresh catch of lake trout for dinner.
Examples
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A lake trout, 20, maybe 25
Fiction book (2002) -
At the market, I bought some flavorful lake trout to prepare for the family gathering.
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The recipe called for roasted lake trout, which pairs well with lemon and herbs.
Synonyms
805
1.0
Meat from a water animal that people cook and eat
123
1.0
A freshwater fish like a salmon that people often eat
3
2.0
A water animal that lives in rivers or lakes and people eat
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2.1
A fish that people catch or farm to eat
Meat from a large freshwater fish often cooked or smoked
A large fish like a trout that lives in cold northern lakes
A fish that lives in northern lakes and is like a lake trout
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'lake' modifies 'trout', yielding a trout that lives in or comes from a lake, so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to the fish (or its flesh) from a lake. This straightforward noun–noun modification is a common, cross-linguistic pattern and is therefore readily understandable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Lake trout can also mean the cooked or raw flesh of that same trout from a lake. So people use the term for the 'meat' of the fish when they eat or sell it.