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Samlet vs Grilse - What's the difference?

samlet | grilse |

As nouns the difference between samlet and grilse

is that samlet is a young salmon while grilse is a young salmon after its first return from the sea.

samlet

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A young salmon.
  • * 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 193:
    • Demon popped into his mouth a last morsel of black bread with elastic samlet , gulped down a last pony of vodka and took his place at the table with Marina facing him across its oblong length.
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    grilse

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A young salmon after its first return from the sea.
  • * 1961 , Albert Upton, Design for Thinking: A First Book in Semantics , Stanford University Press, page 4:
  • *:In our own tongue salmon are fry as babies, parr as children, smolt as adolescents, and grilse as adults.

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