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codfish

codfish noun: a cod (any of various fish, especially the Atlantic cod).

codfish: a cod (any of various fish, especially the Atlantic cod)
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Noun

codfish (countable and uncountable, plural codfish or codfishes)

  1. (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...1997, Mark Kurlansky, “Chapter 2: With Mouth Wide Open”, in Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, Walker, →ISBN
  2. (uncountable) The flesh of a cod as food.

codfish meaning in Tamil

codfish in Tamil

அடளை மீன்

Forms of codfish

pluralcodfish
pluralcodfishes

Plural of codfish: codfish or codfishes

Origin of codfish

From cod + fish.

Words formed from codfish

Phrases with codfish

Questions about codfish

What does codfish mean?
Codfish means a cod (any of various fish, especially the Atlantic cod).
What is codfish in Tamil?
Codfish in Tamil is அடளை மீன். See Codfish meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is codfish?
Codfish is a noun.
What is the plural of codfish?
The plural of codfish is codfish.

Words near codfish in the dictionary

  1. codeword
  2. codewords
  3. codework
  4. codex
  5. codexes
  6. codfish
  7. codfish aristocracies
  8. codfish aristocracy
  9. codfisher
  10. codfisheries
  11. codfisherman

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