Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The great lake-trout, Aristivomer namaycush, called also
Mackinaw trout and (in Maine) togue.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zool.) A large North American lake trout (
Salvelinus namaycush ). It is usually spotted with red, and sometimes weighs over forty pounds. Called alsoMackinaw trout ,lake trout ,lake salmon ,salmon trout ,togue , andtuladi .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Canada, US The
togue : a largeNorth American lake trout , Salvelinus namaycush, usually spotted with red.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The name namaycush can be traced to journals and writings of employees of the Hudson Bay Company of the 1770s, who described some fishes of the Hudson Bay region.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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The name namaycush can be traced to journals and writings of employees of the Hudson Bay Company of the 1770s, who described some fishes of the Hudson Bay region.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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The name namaycush can be traced to journals and writings of employees of the Hudson Bay Company of the 1770s, who described some fishes of the Hudson Bay region.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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The name namaycush can be traced to journals and writings of employees of the Hudson Bay Company of the 1770s, who described some fishes of the Hudson Bay region.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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The scientific name namaycush is an English language rendering of a Native American word for the fish, meaning “dweller in the deep.”
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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The scientific name namaycush is an English language rendering of a Native American word for the fish, meaning “dweller in the deep.”
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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The scientific name namaycush is an English language rendering of a Native American word for the fish, meaning “dweller in the deep.”
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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The scientific name namaycush is an English language rendering of a Native American word for the fish, meaning “dweller in the deep.”
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) are darker than usual.
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Lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) play a key role controlling populations of zooplankton (Daphnia spp.), snails (Lymnaea elodes), and slimy sculpin (Cottus cognatus).
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