Noun:

உணவிற்குப் பயன்படும் சிறு கடல் மீன் வகை,

sprat's Usage Examples:

In the following December large numbers were taken together with sprats at Torquay.

The herring, cod, flatfish, mackerel and sprat are taken in the seas, and also great numbers of a small herring called striimnaing.

The sprat cannot be confounded with the herring, as it has no teeth on the vomer and only 47 or 48 scales in the lateral line.

The fish resembles a sprat in having a forked tail and a single dorsal fin, but the body is round and slender.

When taken in British waters anchovies are either thrown away or sent to the market fresh with the sprats.

Adults fed their chicks mainly on sprats with small gadoids being the main alternative.

Laristan is famous for the condiment called mahiabeh (fish-jelly), a compound of pounded small sprat-like fish, salt, mustard, nutmeg, cloves and other spices, used as a relish with nearly all foods.

Among fish, sprat, whiting, flounder and sand goby abundance have all increased since the initiation of power station closures.

The fish caught are principally sardines, bonito, smelts and sprats.

In times past whitebait were considered to be peculiar to the estuary of the Thames; and, even after the specific identification of Thames whitebait with the young of the herring and sprat, it was still thought that there was a distinctive superiority in its condition and flavour.

Food is more daring than average: think smoked sprats, cuttlefish risotto or spiced beef with pickled walnuts.

The harbour yields sprats which are in great repute.

"It is now known to consist of the young fry of herrings and sprats in varying proportions mixed with a few shrimps, gobies, sticklebacks, pope-fishes and young flounders: but these impurities are as far as possible picked out from the whitebait before it is marketed.

Synonyms:

Clupea, brisling, genus Clupea, Clupea sprattus, sardine,

Antonyms:

None