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Young fish eaten whole
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whitebait
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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 .
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 ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Whitebait (disambiguation) may refer to: Whitebait , the juvenile of various fish species worldwide Whitebait Smelt , a species of smelt (Allosmerus elongatus) that lives off the west coast of North America Operation Whitebait , a small WWII air attack ...
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
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.