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rainbow (trout)†
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a steelhead which lives permanently in fresh water.
See: steelhead(and note)
Quotations
1905
An ample supper of splendid rainbow-trout witnessed to a part of the afternoon's occupation.
1907
The feeding-grounds of the rainbow are the eddies and the back-washes in swift-running rivers. . . .
1966
. . . here live some of the largest rainbow trout in the world . . . along with the kokanee on which the rainbows feed themselves to their fine, fat, fit condition.