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codfishes

codfishes is the plural of codfish.

Meaning of codfish

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.

Questions about codfishes

What is codfishes the plural of?
Codfishes is the plural of codfish.

Words near codfishes in the dictionary

  1. codfisheries
  2. codfisherman
  3. codfishermen
  4. codfishers
  5. codfishery
  6. codfishes
  7. codfishing
  8. Codford
  9. codge
  10. codged
  11. codger

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