Dictionary.com
definitions
  • synonyms

fingerling

[fing-ger-ling]
noun
  1. a young or small fish, especially a very small salmon or trout.
  2. something very small.
Show More

Origin of fingerling

1400–50; late Middle English: fingerstall. See finger, -ling1
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018

Examples from the Web for fingerling

Historical Examples

  • The fingerling rose, with a jerk, from the water, and was no more seen.

    The Watchers of the Trails

    Charles G. D. Roberts

  • There were infant big-mouthed bass in the lake and fingerling trout in many of the streams.

    Operation Terror

    William Fitzgerald Jenkins

British Dictionary definitions for fingerling

fingerling

noun
  1. a very young fish, esp the parr of salmon or trout
  2. a diminutive creature or object
Show More
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012