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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A male fish that is ready to breed.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun That which has or sheds milt; a male fish in breeding-time. Also melter.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A male fish.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A male fish during breeding season.

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