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cod-liver

cod-liver is the rare form of cod liver.

Meaning of cod liver

Noun

cod liver (countable and uncountable, plural cod livers)

  1. The liver of codfish.
    • The menhaden ester fractions were worked up more thoroughly than the cod liver esters, but it was assumed, on the basis of the indicated similarity, that the cod liver oil possessed essentially the same composition as the menhaden. […] Bell (1851) wrote that pigs which ate cod livers became very...1927, Charles E. Bills, “The Principal Chemical Researches on Cod Liver Oil”, in W[illiam] A[lbert] Noyes, editor, Chemical Reviews, volume III, Baltimore, Md., pages 430 and 432

Forms of cod-liver

pluralcod-livers

Phrases with cod-liver

Questions about cod-liver

What is cod-liver the rare form of?
Cod-liver is the rare form of cod liver.

Words near cod-liver in the dictionary

  1. cod psychology
  2. cod reggae
  3. cod's wallop
  4. cod-banger
  5. cod-bangers
  6. cod-liver
  7. cod-liver oil
  8. cod-liver oils
  9. cod-livers
  10. cod-piece
  11. coda

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