n. A fish of the family Salmonidæ, Salmo trutta, with blackish spots, common in the colder fresh waters of Europe, and highly esteemed as a food-fish and game-fish; any species of the same section of Salmo (see Salmo ); a river-salmon, salmon-trout, or lake-trout.n. A fish of the family Salmonidæ and genus Salvelinus (with its section Cristivomer), resembling those called in Europe char. See Salvelinus, and cuts under char and lake-trout, 2.n. Any fish of the family Galaxiidæ (which see).n. With a qualifying word, one of several fishes, not of the family Salmonidæ, resembling or suggesting a trout. See phrases below.n. One of several different trouts (not chars) of the western parts of North America, of the genus Salmo. See def. 1 .n. A weakfish or sea-trout, Cynoscion thalassinus.n. Salmo ferox of England.n. The black-bass, Micropterus salmoides.n. The Dolly Varden trout.n. The black-spotted trout, or mountain-trout of western North America.n. The Lake Tahoe trout.n. with black (see def. 1 )n. with red—a speckled trout (see def. 2).n. The weakfish or sea-trout Cynoscion maculatus.n. The bastard trout.To fish for or catch trout.Same as troat.