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

A ripe fish is at its peak spawning time, meaning it will have a viable amount of milt or eggs.

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

He maintains, however, that the eel is produced spontaneously, and that no person had ever detected eggs or milt in it.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William