The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rainbow \Rain"bow`\ (r[=a]n"b[=o]`), n. [AS. regenboga, akin to G. regenbogen. See Rain, and Bow anything bent.] A bow or arch exhibiting, in concentric bands, the several colors of the spectrum, and formed in the part of the hemisphere opposite to the sun by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of falling rain.
Note: Besides the ordinary bow, called also primary rainbow, which is formed by two refractions and one reflection, there is also another often seen exterior to it, called the secondary rainbow, concentric with the first, and separated from it by a small interval. It is formed by two refractions and two reflections, is much fainter than the primary bow, and has its colors arranged in the reverse order from those of the latter.
Lunar rainbow, a fainter arch or rainbow, formed by the moon.
Marine rainbow, Sea bow, a similar bow seen in the spray of waves at sea.
Rainbow trout (Zo["o]l.), a bright-colored trout ( Salmo irideus), native of the mountains of California, but now extensively introduced into the Eastern States, Japan, and other countries; -- called also brook trout, mountain trout, and golden trout.
Rainbow wrasse. (Zo["o]l.) See under Wrasse.
Supernumerary rainbow, a smaller bow, usually of red and green colors only, sometimes seen within the primary or without the secondary rainbow, and in contact with them.
Usage examples of "mountain trout".
For mountain trout stuffed with onion-flavored blue-eyed grass and baked in 'dobe on the coals were fit to serve Queen Victoria, while the stars at this altitude made the black velvet sky seem spattered with diamond dust, at least where bigger fireflies weren't winking their asses down at you.
Sometimes when they camped near a stream and there was still light enough to see, he and Loial caught mountain trout, lying on their bellies, hands elbow-deep in the cold water, tickling the green-backed fish out from under the rock ledges where they hid.
In the meantime, the galley can see if they have any mountain trout.
They were like the hills and the blue lakes and the tumbling mountain trout streams.
After smoked oysters we ate mountain trout, nicely boned, with parsley potatoes and a luscious mixture of herbed green peas and mushrooms.
If it hadn't been there, he would have gone into the gorge and the mountain trout could have snacked on him instead of the buzzards.