[a. L. (salmo) ferox lit. ‘fierce salmon,’ the scientific name.) A fish (Salmo ferox), the great Lake Trout.
1867. F. Francis, Angling, xi. (1880), 403. Lough Melvin … contains salmon grilse, charr, ferox, gillaroo, and other ‘bastes’ in abundance.
1884. M. G. Watkins, ‘A Fush at last,’ in Longm. Mag., June, 176. Every now and then we had a ferox for dinner. Its pale pinky flesh is not very firm or well-flavoured. But it was a change.
