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LINGCOD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lingcod mean?
• LINGCOD (noun)
The noun LINGCOD has 2 senses:
1. the lean flesh of a fish caught off the Pacific coast of the United States
2. food fish of the northern Pacific related to greenlings
Familiarity information: LINGCOD used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The lean flesh of a fish caught off the Pacific coast of the United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("lingcod" is a kind of...):
saltwater fish (flesh of fish from the sea used as food)
Holonyms ("lingcod" is a part of...):
lingcod; Ophiodon elongatus (food fish of the northern Pacific related to greenlings)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Food fish of the northern Pacific related to greenlings
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
lingcod; Ophiodon elongatus
Hypernyms ("lingcod" is a kind of...):
scorpaenoid; scorpaenoid fish (fishes having the head armored with bony plates)
Meronyms (parts of "lingcod"):
lingcod (the lean flesh of a fish caught off the Pacific coast of the United States)
Holonyms ("lingcod" is a member of...):
genus Ophiodon; Ophiodon (a genus of Ophiodontidae)
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