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Parr vs Carr - What's the difference?

parr | carr |

As a noun parr

is young salmon, at a stage between fry and smolt when they feed chiefly on invertebrates but cannot tolerate saltwater.

As a proper noun carr is

a botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist cedric errol carr (1892-1936).

parr

English

Noun

  • Young salmon, at a stage between fry and smolt when they feed chiefly on invertebrates but cannot tolerate saltwater.
  • A young leveret.

    • Anagrams

    * (Webster 1913)

    carr

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bog or marsh; marshy ground, swampland.
  • * 2007 , Kevin Leahy, The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Lindsey , Tempus 2008, p. 16:
    • The marsh lands or ‘carrs ’ that covered the low-lying floor of the vale could not be cultivated and the poorly drained flanks of the vale would be best used as pasture.
  • A marsh or fen on which low trees or bushes grow; a marshy woodland.
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