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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Fish sperm, including the seminal fluid.
  2. n. The reproductive glands of male fishes when filled with this fluid.
  3. n. The spleen of certain vertebrate animals, such as cows or pigs.
  4. v. To fertilize (fish roe) with milt.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In anatomy, the spleen.
  2. n. The male generative organ of a fish; the spermatic organ and its secretion; the soft roe, corresponding to the roe or spawn of the female. Sometimes melt.
  3. To impregnate the roe or spawn of (the female fish).

Wiktionary

  1. n. The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food.
  2. n. Fish semen.
  3. v. transitive To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Anat.) The spleen.
  2. n. The spermatic fluid of fishes.
  3. n. The testes, or spermaries, of fishes when filled with spermatozoa.
  4. v. To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. fish sperm or sperm-filled reproductive gland; having a creamy texture
  2. n. seminal fluid produced by male fish

Etymologies

  1. From Old English milte, milt ("milt, spleen"), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to beat, grind, crush, weaken”). Cognate to German Milz, Dutch milt, Danish milt, Norwegian milt, Swedish mjölke. Outside Germanic, with Albanian mëlçi ("liver"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, roe, spleen, partly from Middle Dutch milte and partly from Old English milte, spleen; see mel-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (2)

Words with the same meaning

  1. soft roe
  1. white roe

hypernyms (7)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. seafood
  1. seminal fluid
  1. cum
  1. seed
  1. semen
  1. come
  1. ejaculate

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  3. pleura
  4. gall-bladder
  1. pakua
  2. pancreas
  3. midriff
  4. mesentery
  1. spight
  2. dessert-spoonful
  3. m'lord
  4. hypochondria
  1. horse-radish
  2. chamois
  3. salicylate
  4. duodenum
  1. shad
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rhymes (16)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. built
  2. gilt
  3. guilt
  1. hilt
  2. jilt
  3. kilt
  1. lilt
  2. overbuilt
  3. quilt
  1. rebuilt
  2. silt
  3. spilt
  1. stilt
  2. tilt
  3. unbuilt
  1. wilt

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. melt
  2. milter
  3. spawning-bed
  1. spawn-rising
  2. sperm
  3. milt
  1. soft roe
  2. spleen
  3. matie
  1. milky
  2. process
  3. seed
  1. spend
  2. strip
  3. stripping
  1. vent

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  1. animal
  1. fish
  1. sex

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  • knitandpurl "After salmon started coming to the nets, the food improved. Valentina made sautéed salmon steaks, and a soup of salmon heads and potatoes called ukha, and fried salmon liver and salmon milt with kasha, and salmon eggs and butter on thinly sliced black bread."
    Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier, p 104 Feb 9, 2011

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  • chained_bear reesetee alert: a prime candidate for "Worse Than They Sound."

    "There is almost no waste to a cod.... Icelanders used to eat the milt, the sperm, in whey. The Japanese still eat cod milt. Stomachs, tripe, and livers are all eaten, and the liver oil is highly valued for its vitamins."
    —Mark Kurlansky, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World (New York: Penguin, 1997), 34 Jul 14, 2009

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