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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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
fishmeal
Today it means: Ground dried fish, used mainly for livestock feed. Full definition →