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# parr

noun (a parr, parr or parrs)

«parr» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parr/#m2)

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «parr» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parr/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«parr» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/parr.html) on Mova free.