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GADOID FISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gadoid fish mean? 

GADOID FISH (noun)
  The noun GADOID FISH has 1 sense:

1. a soft-finned fish of the family Gadidaeplay

  Familiarity information: GADOID FISH used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GADOID FISH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

gadoid; gadoid fish

Hypernyms ("gadoid fish" is a kind of...):

malacopterygian; soft-finned fish (any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gadoid fish"):

cod; codfish (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)

haddock; Melanogrammus aeglefinus (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)

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

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

grenadier; rattail; rattail fish (deep-sea fish with a large head and body and long tapering tail)

Holonyms ("gadoid fish" is a member of...):

family Gadidae; Gadidae (large family of important mostly marine food fishes)


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