blue whiting
noun
A fish with a blue back and silvery sides and underparts, Micromesistius poutassou (family Gadidae), common in the eastern North Atlantic and the Mediterranean; (also) (in full southern blue whiting) the similar fish M. australis of the Southern Ocean; also called poutassou.
Origin
1920s.
- poison oracle
- poisonous
- poisonously
- poison pea
- poison pen
- poison pen letter
- poison pill
- poison pill amendment
- poison plant
- poison register
- poison ring
- poison root
- poisons register
- poisons' register
- poison-thread
- poison-tipped
- poison tree
- poison vine
- poison-weed
- poisonwood
- poisony
- poissarde
- Poisson bracket
- Poisson-distributed
- Poisson distribution