Word.ws English Dictionary

milkfish

milkfish noun: chanos chanos, an important food fish in southeast Asia.

milkfish: chanos chanos, an important food fish in southeast Asia
Image: Bryan Harry (U.S. National Park Service), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

milkfish (countable and uncountable, plural milkfishes or milkfish)

  1. Chanos chanos, an important food fish in southeast Asia.
    • Its fare is a mix of fast-food staples like burgers and Chickenjoy, along with more regional dishes like smoked bangus, or milkfish — a national symbol of the Philippines — served with vinegar and pepper.2009 February 15, Mark Foggin, “Fast Food for the Filipino Soul”, in New York Times
    • The Taiwanese milkfish industry has faced troubles in recent years, and in 2011 a state-owned PRC firm placed an order for the fish from the town of Syuejia (Xuejia) in Tainan County.2016, Scott L. Kastner, Margaret M. Pearson, “Winning Hearts and Minds? On the Sources and Efficacy of Economic Engagement Policies in US-China and China-Taiwan Relations”, in Steven E. Lobell...
    Synonyms:
    cotton fish

milkfish meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Tagalog and Indonesian

milkfish in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

milkfish in Malayalam

Chanos chanos
പൂമീൻ pūmīṉ

milkfish in Tagalog

Chanos chanos
bangus

milkfish in Indonesian

Chanos chanos
bandeng

Synonyms of milkfish

Forms of milkfish

pluralmilkfishes
pluralmilkfish

Origin of milkfish

From milk + fish.

Questions about milkfish

What does milkfish mean?
Milkfish means chanos chanos, an important food fish in southeast Asia.
What is milkfish in Tamil?
Milkfish in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Milkfish meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is milkfish?
Milkfish is a noun.
What is the plural of milkfish?
The plural of milkfish is milkfishes.

Words near milkfish in the dictionary

  1. milkette
  2. milkettes
  3. milkfat
  4. milkfats
  5. milkfed
  6. milkfish
  7. milkfishes
  8. milkful
  9. milkglass
  10. milkhouse
  11. milkhouses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: milkfish (page history and authors); milkfish (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-milkfish.wav.

Cite this entry: “milkfish.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/milkfish. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.