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saltfish

saltfish noun: salt cod: dried and salted cod.

Noun

saltfish (usually uncountable, plural saltfishes)

  1. (usually) salt cod: dried and salted cod.

Forms of saltfish

pluralsaltfishes

Origin of saltfish

From salt + fish.

Questions about saltfish

What does saltfish mean?
Saltfish means salt cod: dried and salted cod.
What part of speech is saltfish?
Saltfish is a noun.
What is the plural of saltfish?
The plural of saltfish is saltfishes.

Words near saltfish in the dictionary

  1. Salterses
  2. saltery
  3. Saltery Bay
  4. saltest
  5. salteth
  6. saltfish
  7. saltfishes
  8. saltflat
  9. saltflats
  10. Saltfleetby
  11. saltfoot

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