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fingerling

Syllables: fin·ger·lingUK/ˈfɪŋɡəlɪŋ//ˈfɪŋɡəɹlɪŋ/

fingerling noun: a juvenile fish that has developed scales and working fins.

fingerling: a juvenile fish that has developed scales and working fins
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Noun

fingerling (plural fingerlings)

  1. A juvenile fish that has developed scales and working fins.
  2. A type of small potato grown primarily in North America.
  3. An infant weasel, stoat, ferret; esp. weasels.
  4. (broadly) Any finger-sized version of something typically larger.
    • 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.2011, Gregory Maguire, “The Patchwork Conscience of Oz”, in Out of Oz (The Wicked Years), New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 160

fingerling meaning in Tamil

fingerling in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

Forms of fingerling

pluralfingerlings

Origin of fingerling

From Middle English fyngyrlynge, equivalent to finger + -ling, from having the size of a human finger.

Words that rhyme with fingerling

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Questions about fingerling

What does fingerling mean?
Fingerling means a juvenile fish that has developed scales and working fins.
What is fingerling in Tamil?
Fingerling in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Fingerling meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is fingerling?
Fingerling is a noun.
How do you pronounce fingerling?
Fingerling is pronounced /ˈfɪŋɡəlɪŋ/ (UK).
What is the plural of fingerling?
The plural of fingerling is fingerlings.

Words near fingerling in the dictionary

  1. fingerless
  2. fingerlessness
  3. fingerlet
  4. fingerlets
  5. fingerlike
  6. fingerling
  7. fingerlings
  8. fingerman
  9. Fingermans
  10. fingermark
  11. fingermarked

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fingerling (page history and authors); fingerling (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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