fingerling
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See also: Fingerling
English
Etymology
From Middle English fyngyrlynge, equivalent to finger + -ling, from having the size of a human finger.
Noun
fingerling (plural fingerlings)
- (zoology) A juvenile fish that has developed scales and working fins.
- A type of small potato grown primarily in North America.
- An infant weasel, stoat, ferret; esp. weasels.
- (by extension) Any finger-sized version of something typically larger.
- 2011, Gregory Maguire, “The Patchwork Conscience of Oz”, in Out of Oz (The Wicked Years), New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 160:
- Oh, but those little crab-lingered fingerlings really wanted to get in! Now some were trying to claw up through an old knothole whose bole had aged and didn’t sit true in the plank. […] But here came the dwarf opening her door, and the spiderlets melted away.
Further reading
fingerling (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - fingerling potato on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
