Common name | Grey trout |
Language | English |
Type | Vernacular |
Official trade name | No |
Rank | 3 - (Other common name) |
Country | Canada |
Locality | British Columbia |
Ref. | Whiteley, A.R., B.E. Penaluna, E.B. Taylor, S. Weiss, A. Abadia-Cardoso, D. Gomez-Uchida, I. Koizumi and P. Trotter, 2019 |
Life stage | juveniles and adults |
Sex | females and males |
Core | other/n.a. |
1st modifier | color pattern(s) |
2nd modifier | |
Remarks | 'Grey' from West and North Germanic 'græwaz' from Indo-European 'ghreghwos' (p. 264 in Ref. 11979); 'trout' from Middle English from Old English 'truht' from Low Latin 'trocta, tructa', i.e., a fish with sharp teeth, from Greek 'troktes', i.e., gnawer, from 'trogein', i.e., to gnaw (p. 1266 in Ref. 11978). Also in Ref. 1998. |