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brook trout

brook trout

2 6.1
A small colorful freshwater fish that lives in cold streams and lakes and is caught for food or sport
  • noun
  • /brʊk traʊt/
  • Specialized
translation icon : trucha de arroyo
  • While hiking along the stream, we spotted several brook trout swimming in the clear water.
  • native brook trout
  • wild brook trout
  • catch brook trout

Examples

  • Jellie's father was talking to the vice president of student services about fishing for brook trout in Connecticut.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Wild brook trout and other freshwater fish have been documented in the region.

    Blog text (19)

  • Underwater shot of my good brook trout after release!

    Blog text (28)

  • You could catch your limit of eastern brook trout in Lake Aloha and not meet another soul.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • He asked his Uncle George to take him and caught half a dozen brook trout on his first time out.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • I managed one very nice brook trout but could not stay hooked up with the bigger browns for some reason.

    Blog text (28)

  • Before the mountain went to one hundred percent man-made snow, there was this sweet little stream with the nicest brook trout.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Or some small beaver pond or creek that is overrun with brook trout.

    Blog text (10)

  • If you climbed high enough, brook trout swam in gravel pools, fish hardly larger than a man's thumb.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • The lake is teeming with brook trout, making it a popular spot for anglers.

Synonyms

trout
vsbrook trout
123 1.0

A freshwater fish like a salmon that people often eat

is a small North American species rather than the whole family
Salvelinus fontinalis
vsbrook trout
  • Specialized
9.9

A North American freshwater fish called the brook trout that lives in cold streams

is the same species called by a common regional name and valued for sport

Surface Forms

brook trout singular
brook trouts plural

Morphology

brook + trout

The meaning 'a trout that lives in a brook/stream' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'brook' (small freshwater stream) with 'trout' (a freshwater fish), with 'brook' functioning as a habitat-specifying modifier. This straightforward noun–noun compounding pattern is common cross-linguistically and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.

Etymology

Brook trout: The name brook trout comes from where the fish lives: a brook is a small stream and trout is the fish, so the name means 'a trout that lives in small streams'.