Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Salmon under two years old.

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Examples

  • We consider it, however, as a good proof of the natural sagacity and observant disposition of our present author, that he should have come to the same conclusion several years ago, regarding the habits and history of salmon-fry, as that so successfully demonstrated by Mr Shaw.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various

  • For they swim up the rivers every year to lay their eggs in the clear, cold streams, knowing, perhaps, that the salmon-fry, as the young are called, will have fewer enemies away from the ocean.

    Stories of California Ella M. Sexton

  • Don't ridicule the wry-neck, nor sneer at salmon-fry;

    The Book of Humorous Verse Various 1902

  • Don't ridicule the wry-neck, nor sneer at salmon-fry;

    A Nonsense Anthology Carolyn Wells 1902

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