User Contributed Dictionary
Adjective
- Having bristles.
Verb
bristling- present participle of bristle
Extensive Definition
The European sprat, Sprattus sprattus, also known
as Bristling or Brisling, is a small, herring-like, marine fish. Found
in European
waters, it has silver grey scales and white-grey flesh. The fish is
around 12% fat in its flesh and is a source of many vitamins. When
used for food it can be canned, salted, fried, grilled, baked,
marinaded etc.
The majority of Brisling Sardines that are sold
to the public are harvested off the coasts of Norway and
Scotland.
External links
bristling in Bulgarian: Цаца
bristling in Danish: Brisling
bristling in German: Europäische Sprotte
bristling in French: Sprat (poisson)
bristling in Ido: Sprato
bristling in Lithuanian: Šprotas
bristling in Dutch: Sprot
bristling in Norwegian: Brisling
bristling in Norwegian Nynorsk: Brisling
bristling in Polish: Szprot
bristling in Russian: Европейский шпрот
bristling in Simple English: European
sprat
bristling in Finnish: Kilohaili
bristling in Swedish: Skarpsill
bristling in Turkish: Çaça
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
alive with, barbellate, bristled, bristly, bursting, close, compact, crammed, crawling, crowded, crowding, dense, firm, full, glochidiate, hairy, hirsute, hispid, in profusion, jam-packed,
jammed, lavish, overflowing, packed, populous, prodigal, profuse, proliferating, prolific, rife, serried, setaceous, setose, setous, solid, strigal, strigate, strigose, stubbled, stubbly, studded, superabundant, swarming, teeming, thick, thick as hail, thick with,
thick-coming, thronged,
thronging