Atlantic cod

Atlantic cod

English

Etymology

Originally known as cod. The Atlantic was added later to distinguish this species from the related but distinct Pacific cod.

Noun

Atlantic cod (usually uncountable, plural Atlantic cod or Atlantic cods)

  2. A sea fish, the Gadus morhua.
    Synonym: cod (elliptically synonymous)
    • 1997, Mark Kurlansky, “Chapter 1: The Race to Codlandia”, in Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, Walker, →ISBN:
      Basques were not the first to cure cod. Centuries earlier, the Vikings had traveled from Norway to Iceland to Greenland to Canada, and it is not a coincidence that this is the exact range of the Atlantic cod.

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