codfish

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codfish

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noun codfish · codfishes

countable A cod (any of various fish, especially the Atlantic cod). Codfish include ten families with more than 200 species. Almost all live in cold salt water in the Northern Hemisphere. Cod were thought to have developed into their current forms about 120 million years ago in the Tethys Sea, a tropical sea that once ran around the earth east-west and connected all
uncountable The flesh of a cod as food.

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@misc{codfish_2026,
  title = {codfish},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/codfish},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}