trout: Meaning and Definition of

trout

1. any of several game fishes of the genus Salmo, related to the salmon. Cf.
2. any of various game fishes of the salmon family of the genus Salvelinus. Cf.(def. 1),,(def. 4),
3. any of several unrelated fishes, as a bass, Micropterus salmoides, a drum of the genus Cynoscion, or a greenling of the genus Hexagrammos.