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# parr

«parr» in Mova's school dictionary: **a young salmon or trout in its first year or two of life…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a parr, parr or parrs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A parr is a young salmon or trout in its first year or two of life in a river, before it swims to the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parr/#m1)

2) It has dark marks on its sides called parr marks that help it hide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parr/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons on life cycles, the salmon goes from egg to alevin to fry to parr to smolt to adult; the word tells the reader which stage the fish is at. It is common in UK, Irish and Canadian river studies. Phrases: salmon parr, parr marks.

### examples

- A parr is a young salmon living in the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parr/#x1)
- The parr have dark stripes on their sides. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parr/#x2)
- In the life cycle, the fry grows into a parr. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parr/#x3)
- We counted twenty parr in the stream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parr/#x4)
- The parr will turn into a smolt before going to sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parr/#x5)
- Kingfishers sometimes catch parr. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parr/#x6)

### note

Countable; the plural is often the same, «parr», like «fish». Say PAR. Also a surname (Parr), for example Catherine Parr, the last wife of Henry VIII — that use is a name.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «parr» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parr/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.