Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fishmeal

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.83 in modern English

Syllables: fish-meal
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Ground dried fish, used mainly for livestock feed.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"The farmer supplemented the grain with fishmeal to increase the protein content of the cattle's diet."

Etymology

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

Usage

Inflected Forms

fishmeals (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

fish meal

Questions

What does fishmeal mean?: Ground dried fish, used mainly for livestock feed.
Where does fishmeal come from?: 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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