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cod

3 1.0
The white, lean flesh of a large sea fish eaten as food
  • noun
  • /kɑd/
: bacalao
  • I'm going to have the cod and house salad,house dressing on the side.
  • Atlantic cod

The three highest potassium content I could find were cod, halibut, and tuna.

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Examples

  • - I got cod and chips.

    Mascots (2016)

  • I meant is fresh cod in season?

    Shining Through (1992)

  • I got us a nice, big cod for dinner tonight, okay?

    Clean, Shaven (1995)

  • Is fresh cod in season?

    Shining Through (1992)

  • Two chips, one small cod.

    Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie (2014)

  • It's hard to get enough through diet unless you take cod liver oil every day.

    Blog text (6)

  • Instead, she was given smoked salmon or dried cod brought from England.

    Blog text (30)

  • We've got some salmon, some nice Icelandic cod...

    How to Train Your Dragon (2010)

  • Atlantic cod range from North Carolina to Greenland in the northwest Atlantic.

    Academic text (2000)

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

Synonyms

fish
vscod
516 1.0

Meat from a water animal that people cook and eat

is limited to lean white flesh from one northern sea species
seafood
vscod
107 1.0

Animals from the sea that people eat, like fish and shellfish

is specific to the lean white flesh of one large sea species
Atlantic cod
vscod
1 2.1

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

focuses on the lean edible flesh rather than the whole animal
codfish
vscod
1 2.0

White meat from a cod that people cook and eat

is the shorter, more common single word form used in speech
bacalao
vscod
  • US
1 8.0

A cod fish used for food, fresh or salted

is the general edible lean flesh term rather than a regional label
Gadus morhua
vscod
  • Specialized
1 8.1

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

emphasizes the prepared lean white flesh rather than scientific classification

Compounds

Cape Cod
38 3.4

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

salt cod
2 2.8

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

cod-liver oil
1 2.9

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

cod liver oil
1 2.7

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

Atlantic cod
1 2.1

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

Cape Cod Bay
1 3.5

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

Pacific cod
  • Specialized
1 2.7

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

Cape Cod Canal
1 3.9

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

cod oil
  • Specialized
1 9.9

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

Alaska cod
  • US
3.0

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

How Tasty

tuna
254 1.0
sea bass
  • US
19 2.0
cod
3 1.0
carp
18 2.4

Surface Forms

cod singular
cods plural

Etymology

Cod for the fish's flesh is simply the same name as the fish itself, so when people talk about eating cod they mean the white meat from the cod fish, as in cod liver oil. This connection explains why recipes use cod to mean the fish or its meat.