fingerling

A juvenile fish that has developed scales and working fins.

A type of small potato grown primarily in North America.

An infant weasel, stoat, ferret; esp. weasels.

Any finger-sized version of something typically larger.

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.