HADDOCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does haddock mean? 

• HADDOCK (noun)
  The noun HADDOCK has 2 senses:

1. lean white flesh of fish similar to but smaller than cod; usually baked or poached or as fillets sauteed or fried

2. important food fish on both sides of the Atlantic; related to cod but usually smaller

  Familiarity information: HADDOCK used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HADDOCK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lean white flesh of fish similar to but smaller than cod; usually baked or poached or as fillets sauteed or fried

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("haddock" is a kind of...):

fish (the flesh of fish used as food)

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

finnan; finnan haddie; finnan haddock; smoked haddock (haddock usually baked but sometimes broiled with lots of butter)

Holonyms ("haddock" is a part of...):

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Important food fish on both sides of the Atlantic; related to cod but usually smaller

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

haddock; Melanogrammus aeglefinus

Hypernyms ("haddock" is a kind of...):

gadoid; gadoid fish (a soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae)

Meronyms (parts of "haddock"):

haddock (lean white flesh of fish similar to but smaller than cod; usually baked or poached or as fillets sauteed or fried)

Holonyms ("haddock" is a member of...):

genus Melanogrammus; Melanogrammus (haddock)

 Context examples 

Haddock larvae orient toward the northwest using Earth's magnetic field.

(North Atlantic haddock use magnetic compass to guide them, National Science Foundation)

"These microscopic haddock larvae were born in a hatchery and had never experienced life at sea, which suggests that magnetic orientation is in their DNA," said Paris, senior author of the study.

(North Atlantic haddock use magnetic compass to guide them, National Science Foundation)

A new study has found that the larvae of haddock, a commercially important type of cod, have a magnetic compass to find their way at sea.

(North Atlantic haddock use magnetic compass to guide them, National Science Foundation)

Scientists at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and the Institute of Marine Research in Norway used a unique combination of experiments to track larvae movements, using a magnetoreception test facility, or MagLab, and a Norwegian fjord, a natural environment of Atlantic haddock larvae.

(North Atlantic haddock use magnetic compass to guide them, National Science Foundation)