cod

Examples

• All

• Today, commercial cod fisheries are conducted year-round principally with large-mesh otter trawls and sink gillnets.

  Academic text (2000)

• Tori has ordered grilled vegetables for her appetizer and cod with lima beans for her dinner.

  Fiction book (2002)

• When you go to the restaurant and you order cod, it's, it's a type of fish.

• To survive the dark winter months and to build strong healthy bones in children, cod was essential.

  Veritasium

• Got some Murray cod for lunch.

  The Dressmaker (2015)

• I thought maybe you two could go out in the back and get to know each other while I grill up some cod.

  Gentlemen Broncos (2009)

• Most of the dried cod cooked around the world is salt cod.

  Academic text (1991)

• So my timer just went off, which means my wild Alaska cod is done roasting.

• Cod and chips.

  Mascots (2016)

• But then her cod with lima beans, a Barcelona specialty, comes with ham as well.

  Fiction book (2002)

Synonyms

C

codfish

vscod

1 1.1

A large fish that lives in cold seas and has white meat people eat

is the shorter everyday name for the same fish

A

Atlantic cod

vscod

1 2.1

A large sea fish from the North Atlantic with white, flaky flesh used for food

is the general name for this kind of large marine fish

P

Pacific cod

vscod

• Specialized

1 2.7

A sea fish with white meat that lives in the North Pacific and people eat

is the common, broader term for similar large food fish in cold waters

G

Gadus morhua

vscod

• Specialized

8.1

A large sea fish that people eat for its meat and oil

is the broader common name, not focused on commercial oil uses

Compounds

C

Cape Cod

5 3.4

A piece of land in southeastern Massachusetts that reaches into the Atlantic and is popular for vacations

C

cod liver oil

1 2.7

A liquid from the livers of cod that people take as a vitamin supplement

S

salt cod

1 2.8

Cod fish dried and kept in salt that you soak before cooking

C

cod-liver oil

1 2.9

Oil from the livers of cod and similar fish that people take to get vitamins A and D

A

Atlantic cod

1 2.1

A large sea fish from the North Atlantic with white, flaky flesh used for food

P

Pacific cod

• Specialized

1 2.7

A sea fish with white meat that lives in the North Pacific and people eat

C

Cape Cod Bay

3.5

A large bay off the coast of Massachusetts in the United States

C

Cape Cod Canal

3.9

A canal in southeast Massachusetts that lets ships cross the base of Cape Cod

C

cod oil

• Specialized

9.9

A cheap oil from cod used to treat leather and in factories, not for people to eat

A

Alaska cod

• US

3.0

A white sea fish like Atlantic cod that lives in the northern Pacific and is eaten

How Firm

tuna

213 1.0

halibut

1 4.0

sea bass

6 3.0

cod

36 1.0

herring

52 1.4

Surface Forms

Etymology