milt
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They grabbed fish, one after another, by the tail and slid them down a chute into the hatchery building, to be stripped of their eggs and milt.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2020
For the past five years, Parks and Wildlife has collected fertile female greenbacks and the milt, or semen, of male greenbacks in Bear Creek every spring to help boost healthy population numbers.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 24, 2017
They’re so full of milt and roe that there’s no room in their stomachs for food.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2016
One morning, hours before the arctic dawn broke, I accompanied Olafsson to the plant where he obtains his milt.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2011
The old English name for the milt of a fish.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
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