parr

See also: Parr

English

Etymology

Compare Scottish Gaelic bradan (“salmon”).

Pronunciation

Homophone: par

Noun

parr (countable and uncountable, plural parrs)

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

Czech: strdlice (cs)
Finnish: jokipoikanen

French: tacon (fr), saumoneau (fr)
Scottish Gaelic: gille-ruadh m

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

PRRA

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