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salmon trout

• 1 a North American char, Cristivomer namaycush, having important commercial value.

  See also: lake trout  

  • Lake trout is the usual term nowadays. For another earlier term, see salmon of the lakes.

  • 1749  With a setting Net placed in the Creek, we took daily great Number of Jacks and Salmon Trout.
  • 1838  One of the small lakes of the Otanabee is called Trout Lake, from the abundance of salmon-trout that occupy its waters.
  • 1948  You might look down from a canoe and see bull trout and salmon trout chasing one another forty feet below, and that's beating Great Bear River outside Fort Norman.

• 2 a char, Salvelinus malma spectabilis, characterized by reddish-orange spots on an olive-green skin, found in western lakes and rivers and on the Pacific coast.

  See also: Dolly Varden trout   

  • 1882  Mountain trout are plentiful in all the streams and salmon trout in the mountain lakes.
  • 1912  We trolled for and caught the fine salmon trout that the Indians call sapi.