whitebait in English
noun
1
the small silvery-white young of herrings, sprats, and similar marine fish, eaten in numbers as food.
‘Wild puffins normally eat live whitebait , sprats and sand eels which they dive in the sea for,’ said Mrs Platts.
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2. The European sprat (Sprattus sprattus), also known as Bristling, brisling, garvie, garvock, Russian sardine, russlet, skipper or whitebait, is a species of small marine fish in the herring family Clupeidae