parquette

and a. See parquet. parr, par (pär), n. [Prob. so called from the cro -bars (parr-marks) on its sides: see par1.] 1. A young salmon having dark cro -bars and Parr ( Salmo salar). spots on the sides, not yet ready to go down to the sea; a brandling. A parr becomes, in the next stage of growth, a smolt. The ruthle pike intent on war, The silver eel, and mottled par . Ode to Leven-Water (H. Clinker ), ii. 82. ( Davies .) "Each in resembles Conachar," said the Glover, "no more than a salmon resembles a par , though men say they are the same fish in a different state." Scott , Fair Maid of Perth, xxix. 2. By extension, the young of some other fishes, as the codfish, of corresponding age. Parra (par'a), n. [NL., L. parra, a barn-owl.] The typical genus of Parridæ, having the wing spurred, and naked skin-flaps about the base of the bill; the jacanas: synonymous with Jacana. See cut under jacana .