Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A young salmon that is older than a fry and younger than a smolt, having dark marks on the sides.
- noun The young of various other fishes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A young salmon having dark cross-bars and spots on the sides, not yet ready to go down to the sea; a brandling. A parr becomes, in the next stage of growth, a smolt.
- noun By extension, the young of some other fishes, as the codfish, of corresponding age.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A young salmon in the stage when it has dark transverse bands; -- called also
samlet ,skegger , andfingerling . - noun A young leveret.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Young
salmon , betweenfry andsmolt . - noun A young
leveret .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Queen of England as the 6th wife of Henry VIII (1512-1548)
- noun a young salmon up to 2 years old
- noun the young of various fishes
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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[57] It has lately been proved, beyond doubt, that the parr is a young salmon, not a distinct fish.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Mrs. Thomson
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"parr," a small bright-looking fish, four or five inches long, with dark-colored bars across the sides and a row of red spots.
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Pate missed a birdie putt but Watkins missed a three-footer for parr and handed Pate his first win since the 1998 CVS Charity Classic.
Camilo Villegas and Golf in Colombia: The Only Risk is Wanting to Stay! 2010
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Pate missed a birdie putt but Watkins missed a three-footer for parr and handed Pate his first win since the 1998 CVS Charity Classic.
Ann Liguori: Camilo Villegas and Golf in Colombia: The Only Risk is Wanting to Stay! 2010
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Keep up the blog on February 13, 2008 at 8: 21 am | Reply deborah parr seriously someone got called a slag and was reported to the police?
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It was a jewel of a trout, more songbird than fish, with white tips to its fins, bold parr marks, and a red lateral line that ran through its eye.
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Not much scares me in this life but this government terrifys me. on February 13, 2008 at 3: 05 pm | Reply deborah parr
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Mechanistic effects of a Triazine pesticide on reproductive endocrine function in mature male Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) parr.
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Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in winter: the season of parr discontent?
Effects of climate change on general hydro-ecology in the Arctic 2009
sionnach commented on the word parr
a young salmon
November 14, 2007