hake
- noun
- /heɪk/
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- For dinner, I had a fillet of hake served alongside roasted vegetables.
Examples
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You might get a single piece of white hake on a white plate, or a potato resembling a stone all on its own in a bowl.
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The chef prepared a delicious dish featuring grilled hake with lemon butter sauce.
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At the restaurant, the special was baked hake with a crispy herb crust.
Synonyms
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The white, lean flesh of a large sea fish eaten as food
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Lean white meat from a large flat fish that people eat
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White meat from a cod that people cook and eat
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A large sea fish from the North Atlantic with white, flaky flesh used for food
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A sea fish with white meat that lives in the North Pacific and people eat
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White lean fish meat from northern seas used for eating
A group of sea fish called hakes that includes several species
A sea fish that eats other fish and people catch for food
A fish called the silver hake that lives off the east coast of North America
A sea fish found off the Atlantic coast of North America that people eat
White flaky fish meat used as food, similar to cod
White, lean fish meat used for cooking, often baked or fried
White, lean meat from a North Atlantic fish like cod for eating
Lean saltwater fish meat often sold and eaten as food
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hake also means the white meat of that fish because the name first meant the fish itself, so people later used hake for its flesh when cooking or buying it.