- anything very small or trifling
- a small fish about the length of a finger, or a young fish up to the end of the first year
Origin of fingerling
ME: see finger and -lingfingerling
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fingerling
noun
- A young fish, especially one less than a year old and about the size of a human finger.
- Any of various types of potato bearing small fingerlike tubers.
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