parr
See also: Parr
English
Etymology
Compare Scottish Gaelic bradan (“salmon”).
Pronunciation
Noun
parr (countable and uncountable, plural parrs or parr)
- Young salmon, at a stage between fry and smolt when they feed chiefly on invertebrates but cannot tolerate saltwater.
- A young leveret.
Translations
young salmon
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “parr”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)