grilse
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English grills, grilles, of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots grils, grissill, girls (“young salmon”). Compare English grawl, Scots grawl, graulse (“young salmon, grilse”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
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.
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Translations[edit]
salmon