codling
- noun
- Archaic
:
joven bacalao
- The fisherman caught a young codling while casting his net into the sea.
- codling moth
- control of codling
- codling moth damage
Examples
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The chef prepared a delicious dish featuring freshly caught codling from the local market.
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In cold waters, the codling grow quickly before reaching adulthood.
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Fruit damage from codling moths and leafrollers was limited to less than 1 percent each.
Academic text (1997) -
Fruit growers back new approach to codling moth control.
Academic text (1995) -
In time, populations of codling moths dwindle to acceptable numbers.
Fiction book (1999) -
But by the 1920s, codling moths had become established, and growers were spraying trees once or twice a year.
Academic text (1995) -
Mating disruption, a biological intervention, is only the latest strategy employed in a century of war with the codling moth.
Fiction book (1999) -
Before the study began, 0.9 percent of the apples and pears suffered codling moth damage.
Academic text (1997) -
As a result, up to 60 percent of overwintering codling moths were parasitized by the time they emerged the following spring.
Academic text (1997) -
And less insecticide use allows natural enemies to attack codling moths and other orchard pests.
Academic text (1997)
Synonyms
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1.0
The white, lean flesh of a large sea fish eaten as food
2
9.5
A young cod or haddock that people cook and serve to eat
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1.1
A large fish that lives in cold seas and has white meat people eat
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2.1
A large sea fish from the North Atlantic with white, flaky flesh used for food
A young fish like cod, haddock, or pollock that people cook to eat
A large sea fish that people eat for its meat and oil
Compounds
- Specialized
A small grey insect whose young caterpillars eat the inside of apples and damage fruit
How Mature
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Codling is just cod plus the small ending -ling, where -ling means 'small' or 'young' (think duckling). So a codling is simply a 'young cod'.