"milkfish" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: milkfishes [plural], milkfish [plural]
Etymology: milk + fish Etymology templates: {{compound|en|milk|fish}} milk + fish Head templates: {{en-noun|~|+|milkfish}} milkfish (countable and uncountable, plural milkfishes or milkfish)
  1. Chanos chanos, an important food fish in southeast Asia. Wikipedia link: milkfish Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (lifeform): Otocephalan fish Translations (Chanos chanos): bangus (Bikol Central), млечна риба (mlečna riba) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 虱目魚 (zh-min-nan) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 虱目魚 (alt: sat¹ muk⁶ jyu⁴⁻²) (Chinese Cantonese), 虱目魚 (shīmùyú) (Chinese Mandarin), bandeng [masculine] (Dutch), maitokala (Finnish), poisson-lait [masculine] (French), Milchfisch [masculine] (German), awa (Hawaiian), indiai hering (Hungarian), tejhal (Hungarian), bandeng (Indonesian), 虱目魚 (sabahī) (alt: さばひい) (Japanese), ꦧꦤ꧀ꦢꦼꦁ (bandeng) (Javanese), ха́нос (xános) [masculine] (Russian), sabalote [masculine] (Spanish), pez de leche [masculine] (Spanish), bangus (Tagalog), süt balığı (Turkish)

Inflected forms

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