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milkfish

noun milk·fish \ˈmilk-ˌfish\

Definition of MILKFISH

:  a large fork-tailed silvery herbivorous food fish (Chanos chanos) of warm parts of the Pacific and Indian oceans that is the sole living representative of its family (Chanidae)
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First Known Use of MILKFISH

circa 1890

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