brown trout

Questions about brown trout

What does brown trout mean?

brown trout means "speckled trout of European rivers; introduced in North America".

What is another word for brown trout?

Close synonyms include salmon trout, Salmo trutta. 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 brown trout a common word?

brown trout is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.