golden trout

noun

: a brightly colored golden-yellow trout (Oncorhynchus aguabonita synonym Salmo aguabonita) with red markings on the sides and belly that is native to waters of the southern Sierra Nevada but has been introduced in other upland waters of western North America

Examples of golden trout in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The state has so many of these that there are separate categories for freshwater fish (golden trout) and marine fish (garibaldi). —Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2025

To fill the lakes, stocks of rainbow trout, golden trout, brown, brook and cutthroat trout, along with Atlantic salmon and grayling were brought in. —Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 16 Nov. 2024

Tuck into onion cooked in ash with Sasso Nero cheese or marinated golden trout fish with a silky yolk sauce and poppy seeds. —Jemima Sissons, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Apr. 2024

In 1955, a hatchery in West Virginia successfully combined the common rainbow trout with the California golden trout. —Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 17 Apr. 2023

The palomino trout is a hybrid cross of a rainbow trout and a California golden trout. —Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 17 Apr. 2023

Chef Harveen Khera serves a whole golden trout and stuffs it with sprouted beans. —Magdalena O'Neal, Sunset Magazine, 25 Mar. 2022

Maryland’s fall trout stocking program traditionally starts up in early October as crews supplement many of our streams and smaller lakes with rainbow, brown and golden trout. —Jim Gronaw, Baltimore Sun, 14 Nov. 2022

Over the next year, the friends from Oakton, Va., traveled across the country in Luke’s mom’s Honda minivan, from Maine (Atlantic salmon) to California (golden trout) to Hawaii (humuhumunukunukuāpua’a). —Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2021

Word History

First Known Use

1945, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for golden trout

• roundabout
• runabout
• sauerkraut
• thereabout
• turnabout
• about
• bailout
• blackout
• blowout
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• buyout