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SEA TROUT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Silvery marine variety of brown trout that migrates to fresh water to spawn

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("sea trout" is a kind of...):

brown trout; Salmo trutta; salmon trout (speckled trout of European rivers; introduced in North America)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of several sciaenid fishes of North American coastal waters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("sea trout" is a kind of...):

sciaenid; sciaenid fish (widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sea trout"):

Cynoscion regalis; weakfish (food and game fish of North American coastal waters with a mouth from which hooks easily tear out)

Cynoscion nebulosus; spotted sea trout; spotted squeateague; spotted weakfish (weakfish of southern Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of United States)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Flesh of marine trout that migrate from salt to fresh water

Synonyms:

salmon trout; sea trout

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("sea trout" is a kind of...):

trout (flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes)

Holonyms ("sea trout" is a part of...):

brown trout; Salmo trutta; salmon trout (speckled trout of European rivers; introduced in North America)

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