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noun

Sea trout n. (Zool.)

(a)

Any one of several species of true trouts which descend rivers and enter the sea after spawning, as the European bull trout and salmon trout, and the eastern American spotted trout.

(b)

The common squeteague, and the spotted squeteague.

(c)

A California fish of the family Chiridae, especially Hexagrammus decagrammus; called also spotted rock trout. See Rock trout, under Rock.

(d)

A California sciaenoid fish (Cynoscion nobilis); called also white sea bass.

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"Sea trout" Quotes from Famous Books

... superstition, but, at all events, salmon do take it. We cannot afford to be always making experiments, but Mr. Herbert Spencer, busking his flies the reverse way, used certainly to be at least as successful with sea trout as his ...

— Andrew Lang's Introduction to The Compleat Angler • Andrew Lang

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