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splake [< speckled + lake trout] 
n. a hybrid game fish of the trout family, developed by Canadian biologists.
See also: muspike Wendigo trout
- 1954 [Canadian] Biologists who developed the fish . . . had named it Splake.
- 1957 In 1953, the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests stocked 3,600 splake in Chrysler Lake.
- 1966 The splake, Canada's newest game fish, is being put to the use for which it was specifically bred--combatting the ravages of the sea lamprey in the Great Lakes.
- 1954 [Canadian] Biologists who developed the fish . . . had named it Splake.