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/ˈfɪŋɡəlɪŋ/ · noun
(zoology) A juvenile fish that has developed scales and working fins..
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.
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Fingerling means (zoology) A juvenile fish that has developed scales and working fins..
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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.
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