rainbow trout

English

A rainbow trout.

Pronunciation

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Noun

rainbow trout (countable and uncountable, plural rainbow trout or rainbow trouts)

1. (usually countable) A trout of the species Oncorhynchus mykiss, that has black spots and a pink streak running along the body.
2. (usually uncountable) The fish as food.

Synonyms

• (Oncorhynchus mykiss): rainbow, hardhead, redband trout, salmon trout, silver trout, steelhead

Translations

Oncorhynchus mykiss (countable)

• Abenaki: namakw
• Bulgarian: дъгова пъстърва f (dǎgova pǎstǎrva)
• Catalan: truita irisada (ca) f
• Cherokee: ᏧᎶᎸᏗ ᎠᏣᏗ (tsulolvdi atsadi), ᏧᏂᎶᎸᏗ (tsunilolvdi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 虹鱒 / 虹鳟 (zh) (hóngzūn)

• Czech: pstruh duhový m
• Danish: regnbueørred (da) c
• Dutch: regenboogforel (nl)
• Faroese: ælabogasíl n
• Finnish: kirjolohi (fi), sateenkaarirautu (fi)
• French: truite arc-en-ciel (fr) f
• German: Regenbogenforelle (de) f
• Greek: ιριδίζουσα πέστροφα f (iridízousa péstrofa)
• Italian: trota salmonata f (literally “salmon trout”), trota iridea f, trota arcobaleno f
• Japanese: 虹鱒 (ja), ニジマス (ja) (nijimasu)
• Korean: 무지개송어 (mujigaesong'eo), 칠색송어 (chilsaeksong'eo) (North Korea)
• Latin: fario m
• Luxembourgish: Reeboufrell f
• Macedonian: калифорниска пастрмка f (kaliforniska pastrmka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: regnbueørret m

  Nynorsk: regnbogeaure m

• Ojibwe: namegoshens
• Polish: pstrąg tęczowy m
• Portuguese: truta arco-íris f
• Russian: ра́дужная форе́ль f (rádužnaja forɛ́lʹ), мики́жа (ru) f (mikíža)
• Spanish: trucha arcoiris f
• Swedish: regnbågsforell (sv) c
• Turkish: gökkuşağı alabalığı (tr)

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Translations to be checked

• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} trofta ylberi
• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} regnbogasilungur, ^{(please verify)} urriöi
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} regnbågslax (sv)
• Ukrainian: ^{(please verify)} форель райдужна f (forelʹ rajdužna)

Further reading

• rainbow trout on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Oncorhynchus mykiss on Wikispecies.Wikispecies