fingerling

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈfɪŋɡəlɪŋ/    美 /ˈfɪŋɡəɹlɪŋ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. Any finger-sized version of something typically larger. broadly
    — 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.

词形变化

fingerlings plural

词源

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