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ouananiche (older) wananish, wananiche, etc. [< Cdn F < Algonk.: Montagnais wananish little salmon] 
n. a species of small fresh-water salmon, Salmo salar ouananiche, native especially to Lake St. John and certain other lakes in Ontario and Quebec.
See also: Atlantic salmon (def. 2)
- 1808 (1890) A sort of fish resembling salmon, one and a half feet long, called by the Indians Winanis, are found in it, though not in great numbers.
- 1889 A species of salmon, probably the "Wananish," so plentiful in Lake St. John, P.Q.: some say it is found in the Mackenzie River only.
- 1907 Here we took out our rods and fished, although the worst time of the day for such an operation, and soon had enough ouananiche to feed our men for another day.
- 1966 I . . . tied into my first ouananiche with him on Trout Lake near North Bay [Ont.].
- 1808 (1890) A sort of fish resembling salmon, one and a half feet long, called by the Indians Winanis, are found in it, though not in great numbers.