• Grilse

    Origin

    From the earlier form gilse, from Welsh gleisiad, from glas ("blue").

    Full definition of grilse

    Noun

    grilse

    (plural grilses)
    1. 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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