Usually means: Tropical marine fish, often farmed.
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  1. milkfish: Merriam-Webster
  2. milkfish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. milkfish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. milkfish: Collins English Dictionary
  5. milkfish: Wiktionary
  6. milkfish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. milkfish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. milkfish: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. milkfish: Dictionary.com
  10. Milkfish: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. milkfish: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. milkfish: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. milkfish: Medical dictionary

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▸ noun:  Chanos chanos, an important food fish in southeast Asia.

Similar:
bandeng, sabalo, chanid, bangus, basa fish, food fish, mandarin fish, kingfish, catfish, pangasius, more...

Opposite:
land animals, vegetables.

Adjectives:
juvenile, young, mature, captive, larval, adult, cultured, euryhaline, marine, female

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Similar:
bandeng, sabalo, chanid, bangus, basa fish, food fish, mandarin fish, kingfish, catfish, pangasius, more...

Opposite:
land animals, vegetables.

Adjectives:
juvenile, young, mature, captive, larval, adult, cultured, euryhaline, marine, female



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