Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A young fish, especially one less than a year old and about the size of a human finger.
- noun Any of various types of potato bearing small fingerlike tubers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A finger of a glove.
- noun Some small thing no bigger than a finger; specifically, a very small salmon or a small trout.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A young salmon. See
parr .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A young
salmon ortrout . - noun A type of small
potato grown primarily in North America.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a young or small fish
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word fingerling.
Examples
-
On the menu: The Wolfgang Puck menu featured barbecue pork shank, paella, tortelloni with summer truffles, fingerling potatoes, asparagus, heirloom tomatoes with mozzarella, garlic shrimp, scallops and filet mignon.
-
Mashed fingerling potatoes with macaroni and cheese is a great start as long as you garnish with bacon.
Anna Brones: Formulating the Foolproof Foodie Menu Anna Brones 2011
-
This stand still had more summery stuff: peppers, fairy-tale eggplant, fingerling potatoes, summer squash:
-
Make him kielbasa, sour kraut and fingerling potatoes.
-
Snow Bear has dried cranberry beans, collards, Rose Finn Apple (fingerling variety) potatoes, red lettuce and Napa cabbage.
Market Roundup: Sept 30-Oct. 7 Bonnie S. Benwick 2010
-
This stand still had more summery stuff: peppers, fairy-tale eggplant, fingerling potatoes, summer squash:
-
The Conrad Brothers caught a fish that was living in a natural system for over 9 years, probably released as a fingerling.
New (Pending) All-Tackle World Record Rainbow Trout Caught in Saskatchewan's Diefenbaker Lake 2009
-
The Conrad Brothers caught a fish that was living in a natural system for over 9 years, probably released as a fingerling.
New (Pending) All-Tackle World Record Rainbow Trout Caught in Saskatchewan's Diefenbaker Lake 2009
-
Secondis move on to slow roasted rosemary-honey beef ribs w/chanterelles, a fava & fingerling-abetted Lobster Pot (rosemary butter, porcinis), and a "steak" of roasted Berkshire pork shoulder, which certainly isn't something to get lean on.
Thrillist: Ciano: Allstar Italian in the Flatiron Thrillist 2010
-
Snow Bear has fennel, German butterball, french fingerling potatoes, dried beans (four varieties), celery and celeriac.
Market Roundup: Sept 30-Oct. 7 Bonnie S. Benwick 2010
crysb commented on the word fingerling
I think of the small fingerling potatoes.
August 9, 2009
sionnach commented on the word fingerling
Quit molesting the baby potatoes!
What's that? Oh, sorry, I thought you wrote "fingering".
August 10, 2009