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Definition of Rainbow trout

1. Noun. Flesh of Pacific trout that migrate from salt to fresh water.

2. Noun. Found in Pacific coastal waters and streams from lower California to Alaska.

Definition of Rainbow trout

1. Noun. A species of trout, ''Salmo gairdneri'', that has black spots and a pink streak running along the body. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Rainbow trout

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1. The Popular Science Monthly (1895)
"our native brook trout, the brown trout, or common brook trout of Europe, and the rainbow trout of California. The trout for distribution are sent out when ..."

2. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"KEY TO SPECIES OF rainbow trout SERIES: a. Scales well imbricated; upper ray of pectoral usually more or less spotted. b. Scales comparatively large, 120 to ..."

3. A Manual of Fish-culture: Based on the Methods of the United States by United States Bureau of Fisheries, John J. Brice, Henry Frank Moore, Frederick M. Chamberlain (1897)
"The body of the rainbow trout (Salmo widens) is comparatively short and deep, ... The rainbow trout is not indigenous to eastern waters, its original ..."

4. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1896)
"Neither the true rainbow trout nor any variety of it is known to occur in that ... The rainbow trout's range includes tributaries of the lower Columbia and ..."

5. Conservation Assessment for Inland Cutthroat Trout: Distribution, Status and edited by Donald A. Duff (1998)
"Brook and rainbow trout were first introduced in 1880 in Wyoming, and brown trout were ... rainbow trout were first stocked in 1915 in the Smiths Fork, ..."

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