parr

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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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  1. noun A young salmon during its first two years of life, when it lives in fresh water.
  2. noun The young of various other fishes.

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  • The only way this type of behavior will be stopped is for stronger discipline in the schools and a zero tolerance in the legal system. if you do not support the school and the legal systems you have only yourself to blame for the next Chris parr. —  KWTX - HomePage - Headlines
  • Typical parr blood, ,look at his relatives, all criminals. —  KWTX - HomePage - Headlines
  • Lakeland has been operating within the salmon farming industry in the UK since 1987, and specialises in vertically integrated production of high quality Atlantic salmon, all the way from the broodfish through egg, fry, parr, smolt and fully grown salmon to the sale of gutted salmon and fresh fillets. —  Fishupdate.com
  • This is parr for the course in sc,2nd highest unemployment, almost last in education, a school by the railroad tracks and a gov. thats still trying to win the confederate war. —  Cafferty File
  • It was later I learned that after stocking thousands of salmon parr they had something like 13 fish return. —  TimesArgus.com: Sports
 

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/pɑr/
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