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fingerlings

fingerlings is the plural of fingerling.

Meaning of fingerling

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

Questions about fingerlings

What is fingerlings the plural of?
Fingerlings is the plural of fingerling.

Words near fingerlings in the dictionary

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

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