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GADOID
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae
Synonyms:
gadoid; gadoid fish
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("gadoid" is a kind of...):
malacopterygian; soft-finned fish (any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gadoid"):
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" is a member of...):
family Gadidae; Gadidae (large family of important mostly marine food fishes)
