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cod livers

cod livers is the plural 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

Questions about cod livers

What is cod livers the plural of?
Cod livers is the plural of cod liver.

Words near cod livers in the dictionary

  1. cod line
  2. cod lines
  3. cod liver
  4. cod liver oil
  5. cod liver oils
  6. cod livers
  7. cod psychologist
  8. cod psychologists
  9. cod psychology
  10. cod reggae
  11. cod's wallop

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