Crossword clues for fingerling
fingerling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Parr \Parr\ (p[aum]r), n. [Cf. Gael. & Ir. bradan a salmon.] (Zo["o]l.)
A young salmon in the stage when it has dark transverse bands; -- called also samlet, skegger, and fingerling.
A young leveret.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A young salmon or trout. 2 A type of small potato grown primarily in North America. 3 Any finger-sized version of something typically larger.
WordNet
n. a young or small fish
Wikipedia
Fingerling may refer to:
- Fingerling potato, a small potato
- Fingering yarn, a weight of yarn between lace yarn and sport yarn that is sometimes spelled "fingerling yarn"
- Fingerling (fish), a young fish that has developed to about the size of a finger
Usage examples of "fingerling".
Lovely maidens sit in close proximity to the roots of the lovely trees singing the most lovely songs while they play with all kinds of lovely objects as for example golden ingots, silvery fishes, crans of herrings, drafts of eels, codlings, creels of fingerlings, purple seagems and playful insects.
Lilliputian, a chit, a fingerling, a pigwidgeon, a mite, a dandiprat, a micromorph, an homunculus, a dapperling, a small fry or someone with bad posture, weighted down with the cares of the world?
Thia loved tending it, although she preferred flowers to the mundane cabbages, turnips, toties, and fingerlings.
Breakfast was a stew of kapenta, the fingerling dried fish he thought of as African whitebait, and a porridge of maize meal.
They had no view of multihued cliffs, no easy access to the valleys of the Fingerlings.
Lilliputian, a chit, a fingerling, a pigwidgeon, a mite, a dandiprat, a micromorph, an homunculus, a dapperling, a small fry or someone with bad posture, weighted down with the cares of the world?
It belonged to the fishes, and to the seaweed that rode its small waves in broad, thick mats, and to the seabirds that from time to time descended raucously to hunt for fry and fingerlings among the lazily drifting greenery.
The wutternuts were great thatches of gold fingerlings, and the donkey trees were pink.
So did thousands of iridescent, silvery-indigo fish, ranging from fingerling size to about a foot long, eating the krill and fry as if there were no tomorrow.