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noun

1

: brook trout

2

: a small dark long-bodied sluggish pelagic fish (Tetragonurus cuvieri) of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Mediterranean that has a compact armor of bony scales, a tail squarish in section, and flesh that is sometimes poisonous

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