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单词 fingerling
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Definition of fingerling in English:

fingerling

noun ˈfɪŋɡəlɪŋˈfɪŋɡərlɪŋ
  • 1A salmon parr.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Today, most private live haulers and fingerling producers use liquid oxygen on their transport trucks, and many farmers use it on their farm trucks when moving fish from pond to pond.
    • Kentucky State University recently joined the pilot project, adding 10,000 fingerling, or finger-size trout, to the fish already at the community college.
    • Mitchell says several farms have lost entire ponds of fry (baby catfish) and fingerlings because of severe infections.
    • The project aims to provide tilapia and catfish fingerlings to prospective fish farmers.
    • Producers from Nebraska, Tennessee and North Carolina are part of the trend to send fingerlings to Wisconsin and Michigan for fattening.
    • Since black crappie are omnivorous, they eat the fingerlings of many other fish, including those of its predators: pike, walleye, muskellunge, etc.
    • Every year, the Iranians release up to 30 million fingerlings - baby fish - into the Caspian for restocking.
    • Farmers harvest the full-grown fish and restock the ponds with more fingerlings, meaning that several different ages of catfish are present in a pond at any one time.
    • The recently opened centre at Omahenene will supply fingerlings (baby fish) to the fish farmers in the regions of Omusati, Oshana, Kunene, and Ohangwena.
    • The majority of the brown trout had been stocked as fingerlings as the reservoir filled in the early seventies.
    • The least expensive size of fish for stocking is fingerlings, which are one to three inches long.
    • The centre will supply fingerlings (baby fish) to the regions of Omusati, Oshana, Kunene and Ohangwena.
    • These migratory diving birds winter in the Delta region, where they voraciously feed on channel catfish fingerlings and any other fish they can swallow.
    • Another project is to find out why double-crested cormorants tend to pluck catfish fingerlings out of some ponds but not others.
    • In this 30-week study, researchers stocked 9 ponds at a per-acre rate of 2,000 large fish and 6,000 fingerlings.
    • Some forage fish will be sexually mature the first season after stocking as fingerlings.
    • If more fingerlings were available - especially year-round - they could increase production of market-size fish and stabilize seasonal price fluctuations.
    • However while finnock are usually thought to be small immature fingerling fish of a pound or less, the size of some of these sea roving fish will both surprise and delight you.
    • Because higher levels of blue-green algae correlate with higher levels of off-flavors, Zimba and the other researchers say that older ponds may be used for holding sac fry and fingerlings.
    • Larger zooplankton will be freeze-dried for enriching diets as the fry grow into large fingerlings ready to be moved into production tanks.
  • 2US A variety of potato having a pink, yellow, blue, or light tan skin and flesh.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘finger of a glove’): from finger + -ling.

 
 

Definition of fingerling in US English:

fingerling

nounˈfɪŋɡərlɪŋˈfiNGɡərliNG
  • 1A salmon parr.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • However while finnock are usually thought to be small immature fingerling fish of a pound or less, the size of some of these sea roving fish will both surprise and delight you.
    • If more fingerlings were available - especially year-round - they could increase production of market-size fish and stabilize seasonal price fluctuations.
    • The majority of the brown trout had been stocked as fingerlings as the reservoir filled in the early seventies.
    • Producers from Nebraska, Tennessee and North Carolina are part of the trend to send fingerlings to Wisconsin and Michigan for fattening.
    • Since black crappie are omnivorous, they eat the fingerlings of many other fish, including those of its predators: pike, walleye, muskellunge, etc.
    • These migratory diving birds winter in the Delta region, where they voraciously feed on channel catfish fingerlings and any other fish they can swallow.
    • Because higher levels of blue-green algae correlate with higher levels of off-flavors, Zimba and the other researchers say that older ponds may be used for holding sac fry and fingerlings.
    • Kentucky State University recently joined the pilot project, adding 10,000 fingerling, or finger-size trout, to the fish already at the community college.
    • The least expensive size of fish for stocking is fingerlings, which are one to three inches long.
    • Some forage fish will be sexually mature the first season after stocking as fingerlings.
    • The recently opened centre at Omahenene will supply fingerlings (baby fish) to the fish farmers in the regions of Omusati, Oshana, Kunene, and Ohangwena.
    • Every year, the Iranians release up to 30 million fingerlings - baby fish - into the Caspian for restocking.
    • Today, most private live haulers and fingerling producers use liquid oxygen on their transport trucks, and many farmers use it on their farm trucks when moving fish from pond to pond.
    • The project aims to provide tilapia and catfish fingerlings to prospective fish farmers.
    • The centre will supply fingerlings (baby fish) to the regions of Omusati, Oshana, Kunene and Ohangwena.
    • In this 30-week study, researchers stocked 9 ponds at a per-acre rate of 2,000 large fish and 6,000 fingerlings.
    • Farmers harvest the full-grown fish and restock the ponds with more fingerlings, meaning that several different ages of catfish are present in a pond at any one time.
    • Larger zooplankton will be freeze-dried for enriching diets as the fry grow into large fingerlings ready to be moved into production tanks.
    • Another project is to find out why double-crested cormorants tend to pluck catfish fingerlings out of some ponds but not others.
    • Mitchell says several farms have lost entire ponds of fry (baby catfish) and fingerlings because of severe infections.
  • 2US A variety of potato having a pink, yellow, blue, or light tan skin and flesh.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘finger of a glove’): from finger + -ling.

 
 
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