gadoid fish

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Noun

gadoid fish - a soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae

malacopterygian, soft-finned fish - any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii

family Gadidae, Gadidae - large family of important mostly marine food fishes

codfish, cod - major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters

Gadus merlangus, Merlangus merlangus, whiting - a food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus

Melanogrammus aeglefinus, haddock - important food fish on both sides of the Atlantic; related to cod but usually smaller

Pollachius pollachius, pollack, pollock - important food and game fish of northern seas (especially the northern Atlantic); related to cod

hake - any of several marine food fishes related to cod

Molva molva, ling - elongated marine food fish of Greenland and northern Europe; often salted and dried

Brosme brosme, torsk, cusk - large edible marine fish of northern coastal waters; related to cod

rattail, rattail fish, grenadier - deep-sea fish with a large head and body and long tapering tail

References in periodicals archive ?

North sea Scyphomedusae: summer distribution, estimated biomass and significance particularly for O-group gadoid fish. Netherlands J.

The ultrastructural organization of olfactory epithelium of two species of gadoid fish. J.

In cod (Gadus morhua) and other gadoid fish, TMA constitutes most of the so-called total volatile bases until spoilage.

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