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Webster 1913 Edition
Grilse
Grilse
,Noun.
[Etymol. uncertain.]
(Zool.)
A young salmon after its first return from the sea.
Definition 2024
grilse
grilse
English
Noun
grilse (plural grilses)
- 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.
- 1961, Albert Upton, Design for Thinking: A First Book in Semantics, Stanford University Press, page 4:
Translations
salmon