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salmon trout

salmon trout

3.2
The meat of a fish that moves from the sea into rivers and is eaten
  • noun
  • /ˈsælmən traʊt/
translation icon : trucha salmón
  • Grilled salmon trout pairs perfectly with lemon and dill for a light summer meal.

Examples

  • The chef recommended the smoked salmon trout as an appetizer.

  • Have you ever tried salmon trout sushi?

  • We enjoyed fresh salmon trout caught from the river that morning.

  • I love eating salmon trout for dinner.

  • Grilled salmon trout pairs perfectly with lemon and dill for a light summer meal.

  • The chef recommended the smoked salmon trout as an appetizer.

  • We enjoyed fresh salmon trout caught from the river that morning.

Synonyms

trout
vssalmon trout
123 1.0

A freshwater fish like a salmon that people often eat

refers to flesh from a migratory marine fish rather than a freshwater resident
sea trout
vssalmon trout
  • UK
2.7

The meat from a trout that lives in the sea that people eat

has identical meaning but uses a different common phrasing for the same food
rainbow trout
vssalmon trout
  • US
3.2

The meat of a trout that moves between sea and rivers and is eaten

is the general marine form rather than this specific Pacific species

Surface Forms

salmon trout singular
salmon trouts plural

Morphology

salmon + trout

The compound is simply the juxtaposition of two familiar fish names, so a B1 learner who knows 'salmon' and 'trout' can infer it refers to a fish related to or resembling those species (and thus its flesh as food). This noun-noun composition follows a common, literal naming pattern cross-linguistically, making the meaning readily derivable from the constituents.

Etymology

Salmon trout can also mean the flesh of a sea-run trout. The name comes from a trout that swims to and from the sea like a salmon, and because its tasty flesh was eaten, 'salmon trout' came to mean the fish's meat.