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gadiform

gadiform noun: any fish of the order Gadiformes.

Noun

gadiform (plural gadiforms)

  1. Any fish of the order Gadiformes.
    • 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

Adjective

gadiform (not comparable)

  1. Belonging to the order Gadiformes of ray-finned fish.
    • Near-synonyms: gadoid, codlike
    Synonyms:
    gadoid, codlike

Synonyms of gadiform

Forms of gadiform

pluralgadiforms

Origin of gadiform

By surface analysis, an anglicisation from New Latin Gadiformes, or, by surface analysis, translingual Gad(us) + -iform.

Questions about gadiform

What does gadiform mean?
Gadiform means any fish of the order Gadiformes.
What part of speech is gadiform?
Gadiform can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of gadiform?
The plural of gadiform is gadiforms.

Words near gadiform in the dictionary

  1. gadic
  2. gadic acid
  3. gadid
  4. gadids
  5. gadies and lentlemen
  6. gadiform
  7. gadiforms
  8. Gadigal
  9. gadilid
  10. gadilids
  11. gadine

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