Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A large silvery fish (Chanos chanos) of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, widely used for food.

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  • noun An important food fish from southeast Asia.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From its color.]

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Examples

  • I made from nine o'clock in the morning until sunset only 50 kilograms kelar for milkfish.

    Come and Visit Pandeglang 2009

  • I made from nine o'clock in the morning until sunset only 50 kilograms kelar for milkfish.

    Come and Visit Pandeglang 2009

  • The Gulf is an area valuable to science, increasingly important for tourism and is an important economic fishery, especially for blue shrimp, corvina, northern milkfish, sierra, manta ray, guitarfish, shark, crab and clam.

    Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California, Mexico 2008

  • Saranggani, a place that specializes in bangus (milkfish) has become one of the favorite restos at the office.

    notes from the peanut gallery Dean Francis Alfar 2003

  • Saranggani, a place that specializes in bangus (milkfish) has become one of the favorite restos at the office.

    Archive 2003-11-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2003

  • That looks similar to a milkfish or what we call bangus Chanos chanos.

    Baked Satay Fish Niki 2005

  • Our particular study deals with burong bangus, a fermented rice-fish product using milkfish, Chanos chanos, or loangus in the vernacular.

    17 Using Mixed Starter Cultures for Thai Nham 1992

  • Indonesia, and the Philippines, mullet are incidental crops in milkfish and shrimp-pond culture.

    4 Coastal Mariculture 1987

  • Polyculture in the marine environment has been practiced in Southeast Asia with shrimp and milkfish, and Israel has experimented with mullet and shrimp.

    4 Coastal Mariculture 1987

  • XUEJIA, TaiwanThe fish farmers on the terraced plains above Taiwan's west coast are riding a China boom, exporting tons of sweet, flaky milkfish to the mainland, thanks to import duties Beijing lowered to win over the island's voters.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2012

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