brook trout

Questions about brook trout

What does brook trout mean?

brook trout means "a delicious freshwater food fish". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for brook trout?

Close synonyms include speckled trout, speckled trout, Salvelinus fontinalis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brook trout a common word?

brook trout is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.