speckled trout
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7.2
- noun
- /ˈspɛkəld traʊt/
- US
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- I caught a 51.2-pound speckled trout and won the whole thing.
- catch a speckled trout
- fishing for speckled trout
- big speckled trout
Examples
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Red drum is extremely recreationally valuable, blue crab, speckled trout, flounder and snapper species, also some pig fish.
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They'd play most of the day and then spend half the night drinking and telling tales at the fireside, eating great heaps of little speckled trout, fried crisp, bones and all.
Fiction book (1997) -
Late winter and early spring are the best seasons for catching giant speckled trout on the Texas coast.
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Hike the island's sandy beaches, surf casting for redfish, flounder, and speckled trout along the way.
Synonyms
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1.0
A freshwater fish like a salmon that people often eat
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward adjective + noun combination: 'speckled' means covered with small spots and 'trout' is a fish, so the meaning 'a trout with spots' is directly derivable from the parts. This compositional pattern is common across languages and follows normal English modification rules, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand it.
Etymology
The name speckled trout comes from how the fish looks. The word speckled means 'covered in small spots' and trout is the fish, so people named the species for its spotted body and today the term refers to that spotted freshwater trout.