Cod
[kɒd]
Definition
(noun.) major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters.
(noun.) lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached.
Checker: Patrice--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A husk; a pod; as, a peascod.
(n.) A small bag or pouch.
(n.) The scrotum.
(n.) A pillow or cushion.
(n.) An important edible fish (Gadus morrhua), taken in immense numbers on the northern coasts of Europe and America. It is especially abundant and large on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland. It is salted and dried in large quantities.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Codfish (Morrhua vulgaris).
Checker: Reginald
Definition
n. (Scot.) a pillow.
n. (slang) applied to persons with various meanings: a joke.—v.t. to impose on.
n. a husk or shell containing seeds: the scrotum.—adjs. Cod′ded enclosed in a cod; Cod′ding (Shak.) wanton.—n. Cod′-piece a baggy appendage worn in front of the tight hose of the middle ages.
n. a species of fish much used as food found in the northern seas.—ns. Cod′-fisher; Cod′-fish′ery; Cod′-fish′ing; Cod′ling a small cod.—Cod-liver oil a medicinal oil extracted from the fresh liver of the common cod.
Checker: Sandra
Examples
- Each female cod has more than 9,000,000 eggs, but the numbers are kept down by a host of enemies. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Why, what a cod's head and shoulders I am, said Mr. Jarndyce, to require reminding of it! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- So I dined upon cod very heartily, and have since continued to eat as other people; returning only now and then occasionally to a vegetable diet. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The average length of the common cod is about two and one-half or three feet, and the weight between thirty and fifty pounds, though sometimes cod are caught weighing three times as much. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- As he said it, he glanced from the cod-fish to the oyster-barrels, and chuckled joyously. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The oil, which is extracted from the liver, is of great medicinal value, and contributes considerably to the high economic value of the cod. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Each female cod has more than 9,000,000 eggs, but the numbers are kept down by a host of enemies. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Why, what a cod's head and shoulders I am, said Mr. Jarndyce, to require reminding of it! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- So I dined upon cod very heartily, and have since continued to eat as other people; returning only now and then occasionally to a vegetable diet. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The average length of the common cod is about two and one-half or three feet, and the weight between thirty and fifty pounds, though sometimes cod are caught weighing three times as much. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- As he said it, he glanced from the cod-fish to the oyster-barrels, and chuckled joyously. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The oil, which is extracted from the liver, is of great medicinal value, and contributes considerably to the high economic value of the cod. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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