Definition of "namaycush" [nam•ay•cush]

• See lake trout. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "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."
• "The scientific name namaycush is an English language rendering of a Native American word for the fish, meaning “dweller in the deep.”"
• "Lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) are darker than usual."