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Minnows or other small fresh- or salt-water fish (especially herring)
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whitebait
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Whitebait \White"bait`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) The young of several species of herrings, especially of the common herring, esteemed a great delicacy by epicures in England. A small translucent fish ( Salanx Chinensis ) abundant at certain seasons on the coasts ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The accent is again on fish, including seafood platters of king prawns, crab and whitebait . ▪ When I first moved into my dressing room at the Lyceum, it gave off a heady fragrance of drains and whitebait .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The young of various species of fish, especially herrings, sprats or smelts, served deep fried as a starter or snack
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. minnows or other small fresh- or salt-water fish (especially herring); usually cooked whole the edible young of especially herrings and sprats and smelts
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
This article is concerned with whitebait as the juvenile of various species of fish around the world; for other uses of the term see whitebait (disambiguation) . and poutine.jpg|thumb|300px| Whitebait is the immature fry of fish, in this case sardines ...
Usage examples of whitebait.
Breakfast was a stew of kapenta, the fingerling dried fish he thought of as African whitebait, and a porridge of maize meal.
It does burgers and ribs too, and deep-fried whitebait, and has red-check tablecloths, and candles in wine bottles under great red vesuviuses of congealed wax, and complimentary breadsticks and gigantic pepper mills on every table, so I book the table for two, eight-thirty, name of Jackson, from a red-faced man with dirty fingernails who may or may not be the eponymous Luigi, then head back to my digs.