cod
(kɒd )
Word forms: cods , cod
1. variable noun
Cod are a type of large edible fish.
Cod is this fish eaten as food.
A Catalan speciality is to serve salt cod cold.
2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
You use cod to describe something which is not genuine and which is intended to deceive or amuse people by looking or sounding like the real thing. [British]
...a cod documentary on what animals think of living in a zoo.
Image of cod
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Collocations:
cod fishery cod stocks
Half a millennium of documented cod fishery came to an end.
Times, Sunday Times
Little outports that grew around the cod fishery have a bleak future, a prospect no politician wants to admit.
Globe and Mail
In its heyday, the cod fishery was worth about a quarter of a billion dollars a year.
Globe and Mail
Under the management of the federal government, the province's cod fishery has all but disappeared.
Globe and Mail
The collapse of the cod fishery.
Globe and Mail
Commercial f leets have made huge inroads into cod stocks and netsmen will sweep up the hugely valuable bass yards from the shore.
Times, Sunday Times
Cod stocks are showing encouraging signs of recovery from overfishing in the 1980s and 90s.
Times, Sunday Times
People have been looking for more sustainable fish species to protect cod stocks.
Times, Sunday Times
Their first priority will be to come up with plans to rebuild the fragile cod stocks.
Globe and Mail
The decline in cod stocks has led to an explosion in the populations of crabs and jellyfish, on which the adult fish feed.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 鳕鱼
Japanese: タラ
- bobsled
- bobsleigh
- Bob's your uncle
- bod
- bodacious
- bode
- bodge
- bodice
- bodice ripper
- bodice-ripping
- bodily
- bodily contact
- bodily fluid
- bodily form
- bodily function
- bodily integrity
- bodily movement
- bodily organs
- bodily processes
- bodily secretions
- bodily sensations
- bodily tissues
- bodily waste
- body
- body aches