Cod vs. Halibut

Codnoun

(obsolete) A small bag or pouch.

Codnoun

A husk or integument; a pod.

Codnoun

The scrotum (also in plural).

Codnoun

A pillow or cushion.

Codnoun

The Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua.

Codnoun

The sea fish of the genus Gadus generally, as inclusive of the Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) and Greenland cod (Gadus ogac or Gadus macrocephalus ogac).

Codnoun

The sea fish of the family Gadidae which are sold as "cod", as haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) and whiting (usually Merlangius merlangus).

Codnoun

Other unrelated fish which are similarly important to regional fisheries, as the hapuku and cultus cod.

Codnoun

Other unrelated fish which resemble the Atlantic cod, as the rock cod (Lotella rhacina) and blue cod (Parapercis colias).

Codnoun

A joke or an imitation.

Codnoun

A stupid or foolish person.

Codadjective

Having the character of imitation; jocular. (now usually attributive, forming mostly compound adjectives).

Codadjective

(Polari) Bad.

Codverb

To attempt to deceive or confuse.

Codnoun

A husk; a pod; as, a peascod.

Codnoun

A small bag or pouch.

Codnoun

The scrotum.

Codnoun

A pillow or cushion.

Codnoun

An important edible fish (Gadus morrhua), taken in immense numbers on the northern coasts of Europe and America. It is especially abundant and large on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland. It is salted and dried in large quantities.

Codnoun

the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves)

Codnoun

lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached

Codnoun

major food fish of arctic and cold-temperate waters

Codverb

fool or hoax;

Codverb

harass with persistent criticism or carping;

Codadjective

payment due by the recipient on delivery;

Codadverb

collecting the charges upon delivery;

Cod

Cod is the common name for the demersal fish genus Gadus, belonging to the family Gadidae. Cod is also used as part of the common name for a number of other fish species, and one species that belongs to genus Gadus is commonly not called cod (Alaska pollock, Gadus chalcogrammus).

Halibutnoun

A large flatfish of the genus Hippoglossus, which sometimes leaves the ocean floor and swims vertically.

Halibutnoun

A large, northern, marine flatfish (Hippoglossus vulgaris), of the family Pleuronectidæ. It often grows very large, weighing more than three hundred pounds. It is an important food fish.

Halibutnoun

lean flesh of very large flatfish of Atlantic or Pacific

Halibutnoun

marine food fish of the northern Atlantic or northern Pacific; the largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes

Halibut

Halibut is the common name for three flatfish in the genera Hippoglossus and Reinhardtius from the family of right-eye flounders and, in some regions, and less commonly, other species of large flatfish. The word is derived from haly (holy) and butte (flat fish), for its popularity on Catholic holy days.