Parr

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  • 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
    • 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, and fingerling.
  • noun. A young leveret.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Young salmon, between fry and smolt.
  • noun. A young leveret.
    • 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
    • Word Usage
    "[57] It has lately been proved, beyond doubt, that the parr is a young salmon, not a distinct fish."
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    fingerling  samlet  skegger  
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