milkfish in English

noun
1
a large active silvery fish of the Indo-Pacific region, farmed for food in Southeast Asia and the Philippines.
There's this mythical fish, you see, called a milkfish .

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1. The Gonorynchiformes are an order of ray-finned fish that includes the important food source, the milkfish (Chanos chanos, family Chanidae), and a number of lesser-known types, both marine and freshwater.