Word.ws English Dictionary

Atlantic cod

Atlantic cod noun: a sea fish, the Gadus morhua.

atlantic cod: a sea fish, the Gadus morhua
Image: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

Atlantic cod (usually uncountable, plural Atlantic cod or Atlantic cods)

  1. (usually) A sea fish, the Gadus morhua.
    • Basques were not the first to cure cod. Centuries earlier, the Vikings had traveled from Norway to Iceland to Greenland to Canada, and it is not a coincidence that this is the exact range of the Atlantic cod.1997, Mark Kurlansky, “Chapter 1: The Race to Codlandia”, in Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, Walker, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    cod[Appendix:Glossary

Atlantic cod meaning in Tamil

Atlantic cod in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

Synonyms of Atlantic cod

  • cod[Appendix:Glossary

Forms of Atlantic cod

pluralAtlantic cod
pluralAtlantic cods

Origin of Atlantic cod

Originally known as cod. The Atlantic was added later to distinguish this species from the related but distinct Pacific cod.

Questions about Atlantic cod

What does Atlantic cod mean?
Atlantic cod means a sea fish, the Gadus morhua.
What is Atlantic cod in Tamil?
Atlantic cod in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Atlantic cod meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Atlantic cod?
Atlantic cod is a noun.
What is the plural of Atlantic cod?
The plural of Atlantic cod is Atlantic cod.

Words near Atlantic cod in the dictionary

  1. Atlantic bonitos
  2. Atlantic Canada
  3. Atlantic City
  4. Atlantic Coast leopard frog
  5. Atlantic Coast leopard frogs
  6. Atlantic cod
  7. Atlantic cods
  8. Atlantic County
  9. Atlantic croaker
  10. Atlantic croakers
  11. Atlantic Daylight Time

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Atlantic cod (page history and authors); Atlantic cod (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Atlantic cod.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/atlantic_cod. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.