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
“Even one drop of milt can fertilize 1,000 eggs,” Nehring said.
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
Another staff member picked up each dead male and squeezed milt into the eggs.
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2016
One male and two females that I examined on that date were ripe or nearly so; eggs seemed well developed and milt flowed freely from the male.
From Fishes of the Big Blue River Basin, Kansas by W. L. Minckley
