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

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

Fertilization is more successful when the eggs of four females mix with the milt of 10 or 11 males.

From Washington Times • May 16, 2015

When monkfish season came to an end, he found another niche to capitalize on, codfish milt.

From New York Times • May 13, 2011

There was also served oxygarum made in the fisheries of New Carthage—a paste of tunny milt, loaded with salt and vinegar, which excited the palate, stimulating one to drink wine.

From Sónnica by Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente