parr
USPAHR/pɑɹ/PAH/pɑː(ɹ)/
Pluralparrs, parr
- 1A young salmon, past the baby stage, that eats mostly small animals without backbones and cannot live in salt water.
We saw a parr hiding under a rock in the stream.
The shallow river was full of tiny parr feeding on insects.
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Origin
For the young salmon, it comes from an old word meaning "to enclose", because the spots on the fish's side look like the bars of a fence.