Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A young salmon during its first two years of life, when it lives in fresh water.
- n. The young of various other fishes.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. 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.
- n. By extension, the young of some other fishes, as the codfish, of corresponding age.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A young salmon in the stage when it has dark transverse bands; -- called also
samlet ,skegger , andfingerling . - n. A young leveret.
WordNet 3.0
- n. Queen of England as the 6th wife of Henry VIII (1512-1548)
- n. a young salmon up to 2 years old
- n. the young of various fishes
Etymologies
- Compare Gaelic and Irish bradan salmon. (Wiktionary)
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“[57] It has lately been proved, beyond doubt, that the parr is a young salmon, not a distinct fish.”
“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.”
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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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“Mechanistic effects of a Triazine pesticide on reproductive endocrine function in mature male Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) parr.”
“Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in winter: the season of parr discontent?”
Effects of climate change on general hydro-ecology in the Arctic
“After reading the article, ads such as this is parr for the course and should be expected.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘parr’.
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fish list
lots and lots of fish, a piscatorial
wetdreamablet, agnathan, ahi, ahuru, ahuruhuru, albacore, albicore, alec, alewife, allice, allis, amberjack and 840 more...
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pustule, purulence, pushful, purser, purpureal, putative, purpure, purpresture, purloin, purline, purlieu, purlicue and 1766 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Salmon
All salmon all the time!
Also see asativium's excellent Salmon I am list.salmon, Salmon, Salmon of Knowledge, the Salmon of Lly..., chinook salmon, kipper, spent fish, foul fish, kelts, kelt, shedder, baggit and 70 more...
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NTDW1
template, modal, sublingual, tandem, polycentric, septuagenarian, token, irrevocable, denotive, augural, aberrant, phlebotomy and 1188 more...
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Alaska
Names of places, animals, plants, people, etc. found in and around Alaska.
koyukon, chinook, coho, sockeye, king salmon, chum, dog salmon, kipper, kelt, baggit, samlet, parr and 221 more...
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Are we there yet?
These have some growing up to do.
colt, foal, kitten, cub, pup, heifer, larva, imago, veliger, trochophore, grub, maggot and 178 more...
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new acquisitions
found in the wild (i.e., not on Wordie!)
samara, indehiscent, paschal, rogation, wen, rete, diriment, epicene, duramen, euhemerism, objurgate, canaille and 429 more...
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freerice words to learn
because the website is just that awesome.
allocution, embolism, napery, hemidemisemiquaver, bestir, moppet, ampoule, pullet, praenomen, philately, hauberk, ratiocination and 40 more...
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Words from freerice.com
foolscap, tabor, pilus, carom, pomelo, pluton, bulbul, dhole, duenna, poniard, breviary, bollix and 88 more...
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baby and neutered animal names
joey, cygnet, calf, kid, pup, cub, fledgling, duckling, fry, gosling, nymph, chick and 62 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for parr.
sionnach a young salmon Nov 14, 2007