whitings

Noun (1)

whiting (usually uncountable, plural whitings)

1. (usually) A fine white chalk used in paints, putty, whitewash etc.
   • Precipitated calcium carbonate, a very fine powdery form, is used as a basis for many tooth powders and pastes. As whiting it finds a wide use in cleaning metals of their tarnishes.1918, Hannah Teresa Rowley, Mrs. Helen Louise (Wales) Farrell, Principles of Chemistry Applied to the Household

   Synonyms:

   whitening

Noun (2)

whiting (plural whitings or whiting)

1. A fish, Merlangius merlangus (family Gadidae), similar to cod, found in the North Atlantic; English whiting (US).
2. (US) Any of several marine fish found in North American coastal waters, including hakes (genus Merluccius), especially Merluccius bilinearis (silver hake).
3. (Canada) Alaska pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus, syn. Theragra chalcogramma).
4. A blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou), a marine fish of the Northern Hemisphere.
5. A southern blue whiting (Micromesistius australis), a marine fish of the Southern Hemisphere.
   • Other deep creatures now being harvested or targeted as seafood include rattails, skates, squid, red crabs, orange roughy, black oreos, smooth oreos, hoki, blue ling, southern blue whiting, sablefish, black scabbard fish and spiny dogfish.1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times

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