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Definition of Ophiodon elongatus

1. Noun. Food fish of the northern Pacific related to greenlings.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ophiodon Elongatus

Literary usage of Ophiodon elongatus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Explorations and Surveys: To Ascertain the Most Practicable and by United States War Dept, Joseph Henry, United States Army. Corps of Engineers, Spencer Fullerton Baird (1855)
"... in one and smooth in the other, will afford the means of discriminating very readily between both genera. Ophiodon elongatus, Grd. PLATE XVIII ..."

2. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"Ophiodon elongatus, the blue cod, cultus cod, or Buffalo cod of California, is a large fish of moderate value as food, much resembling a codfish, ..."

3. ... The Blood-vascular System of the Loricati, the Mailcheeked Fishes by William Fitch Allen (1905)
"For detailed work, Ophiodon elongatus was taken as a type. The reason for choosing Ophiodon was partly because of its position between the 2 extremes of the ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"... was by others called rock cod; another species (Ophiodon elongatus) was designated as the cod or 'codfish where the true cod is unknown,' and, ..."

5. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1884 Tho Cultus Codfish, ophiodon elongatus, is mentioned in the Report of the US Fishery Commission, ..."

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