fishmeal
noun
fishmeal is a noun meaning “Ground dried fish, used mainly for livestock feed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-S-H-M-E-A-L, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fishmeal is fishmeals.
What does fishmeal mean?
noun
- 1
Ground dried fish, used mainly for livestock feed.
The farmer supplemented the grain with fishmeal to increase the protein content of the cattle's diet.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fishmeal?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-fishmeal.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fishmeal
- fishmeals plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fishmeal?
Fishmeal appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 115,751st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Fishmeal in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense ground dried fish:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | farine de poisson |
| German | Fischmehl |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
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.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).