Seatrouts

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. Several fish of the trout family that migrate between the sea and rivers to spawn, prized by anglers for sport
2. Sea-going trout species that live in saltwater and return to freshwater streams, often pursued by fishermen
3. Migratory game fish belonging to the salmonid family that spend time at sea and ascend rivers to breed

Etymology: "Seatrouts" is simply the plural of "seatrout", a migratory fish that spends part of its life at sea and returns to rivers to spawn. The plural follows the regular English pattern of adding "-s" to a singular noun, so it carries no separate history of its own. The underlying compound is "sea" and "trout", the latter a word inherited from Old English "truht" and ultimately borrowed from Latin "tructa" (or Greek "tróktēs"), and the name "seatrout" describes the fish as a trout that lives in the sea.

Synonyms: sea trout