lake trout

Questions about lake trout

What does lake trout mean?

lake trout means "flesh of large trout of northern lakes". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for lake trout?

Close synonyms include salmon trout, Salvelinus namaycush. 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 lake trout a common word?

lake 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.