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sprat
[ sprat ]
noun
- a species of herring, Clupea sprattus, of the eastern North Atlantic.
- a small or inconsequential person or thing.
sprat
/ spræt /
noun
- a small marine food fish, Clupea sprattus, of the NE Atlantic Ocean and North Sea: family Clupeidae (herrings) See also brisling
- any of various small or young herrings
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of sprat1
Example Sentences
The Bristol Channel is home to salmon, eels, herring, sprats, and dozens of protected marine species.
The wild fish studied included Pacific and Peruvian anchoveta, and Atlantic herring, mackerel, sprat and blue whiting -- which are all marketed and consumed as seafood.
In their flat, over a pile of sprat sandwiches, she explains that her eldest son is still in Ukraine expecting to be called up to fight any day.
He added that minke whales feed on sand eels, sprat, young herring, other "shoaling small fishes" and zooplankton and there "must be good food for this animal to bring it into this area".
“He was the cocky little sprat who came looking for instant sexual initiation for fear that the world was about to end.”
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