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Examples of brown trout in a Sentence
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Native fish are highly susceptible to fish-eating predators like the brown trout.
—The Arizona Republic, 1 Mar. 2024
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Tiger trout are a cross between a brown trout and a brook trout.
—Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 28 Feb. 2024
Horsethief became a popular destination because of its fantastic fishing — kokanee, rainbow trout and brown trout fill the lake.
—Chadd Cripe, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
Bounties have been placed on the heads of brown trout in parts of Arizona and on pike minnows in Oregon and Washington, but neither are close to gone.
—Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 25 Oct. 2023
And to protect spawning brown trout, Montana officials have decided to halt fishing two weeks earlier than usual, on Sept. 30, for portions of the Big Hole, Ruby and Beaverhead Rivers.
—Jim Robbins, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
Stocked in summer with rainbow and brown trout, Riggs Flat Lake is a beautiful fishing and camping spot.
—Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2024
Other annual species stocking goals in Wisconsin waters of Lake Michigan are 500,000 coho salmon, 460,000 steelhead (rainbow trout), 450,000 brown trout, 50,000 brook trout and 45,000 lake trout.
—Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2022
Hundreds of fish, including brown trout and white lake chub, as well as dozens of salmon, often congregated in the patch of cold water from the well to escape the heat.
—TIME, 23 Oct. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1726, in the meaning defined above
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“Brown trout.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brown%20trout. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.
Kids Definition
brown trout
noun
: a speckled European trout widely introduced as a game fish
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