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See also: Parr
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compare Scottish Gaelic bradan (“salmon”). For the salmon life stage, the word originates from the Middle English parren (“to enclose”), referring to the spots running along the side of the fish, resembling the bars of a fence.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /pɑː(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
- Homophones: par, Parr; pa (non-rhotic)
Noun
[edit]parr (countable and uncountable, plural parrs or parr)
- Young salmon, at a stage between fry and smolt when they feed chiefly on invertebrates but cannot tolerate saltwater.
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) A young leveret.
Translations
[edit]young salmon
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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