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Definition of Gadoid
1. Noun. A soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae.
Generic synonyms: Malacopterygian, Soft-finned Fish
Group relationships: Family Gadidae, Gadidae
Specialized synonyms: Cod, Codfish, Gadus Merlangus, Merlangus Merlangus, Whiting, Haddock, Melanogrammus Aeglefinus, Pollachius Pollachius, Pollack, Pollock, Hake, Ling, Molva Molva, Brosme Brosme, Cusk, Torsk, Grenadier, Rattail, Rattail Fish
Definition of Gadoid
1. a. Of or pertaining to the family of fishes (Gadidæ) which includes the cod, haddock, and hake.
Definition of Gadoid
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to cod or the ''Gadidae'' family. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gadoid
1. a type of fish [n -S]
Medical Definition of Gadoid
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Gadoid
Literary usage of Gadoid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the Michigan State Library: United States Documents, State by Michigan State Library (1898)
"Index. The black grouper of the southern coast. — Two gadoid fishes of the
northwestern Atlantic. ..."
2. The Life-histories of the British Marine Food-fishes by William Carmichael M'Intosh, Arthur Thomas Masterman (1897)
"In contrasting such a stage (eg, one 9 mm. in length) with a gadoid, ... Except in
the tail, the young gadoid of the same size has only embryonic rays in ..."
3. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1864)
"... a remarkable new generic type 224 Synopsis of the North American gadoid Fishes
229 Descriptions of the genera of gadoid and ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1904)
"It has been suggested that the annual rings of growth may be traced upon the
gadoid scales ; but I find that upon the cod, haddock, whiting, green cod and ..."
5. The American Catalogue of Books: (original and Reprints,) Published in the by James Kelly (1866)
"Synopsis of the Korth American gadoid Fishes. T. Gill. Descriptions of the genera
of gadoid and ..."
6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1903)
"The scales of gadoid and many other fishes show a series of parallel eccentric
lines which indicate successive increments of growth. ..."
7. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1864)
"Synopsis of the North American gadoid fishes. Ibid. America. Ibid. . Descriptions of
the genera of gadoid fish of Western North temperate North America. ..."
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