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fishmeal

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Etymology

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By surface analysis, fish +‎ meal. Cognate with Danish fiskemel, Dutch vismeel, German Fischmehl, Icelandic fiskimjöl, Norwegian Bokmål fiskemel, Norwegian Nynorsk fiskemjøl, and Swedish fiskmjöl.

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fishmeal (countable and uncountable, plural fishmeals)

  1. Ground dried fish, used mainly for livestock feed.
    Alternative form: fish meal
    The farmer supplemented the grain with fishmeal to increase the protein content of the cattle's diet.

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