Definition of Atlantic cod

1. Noun. One of the world's most important commercial fishes.

Exact synonyms: Gadus Morhua
Generic synonyms: Cod, Codfish
Terms within: Cod, Codfish

Definition of Atlantic cod

1. Noun. A fish of the species ''Gadus morhua''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Atlantic Cod

Atlantans
Atlantean
Atlanteans
Atlantian
Atlantians
Atlantic
Atlantic Canada
Atlantic City
Atlantic Coast
Atlantic Isles
Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic Standard Time
Atlantic Time
Atlantic bonito
Atlantic bottlenose dolphin
Atlantic cod (current term)
Atlantic croaker
Atlantic halibut
Atlantic herring
Atlantic herrings
Atlantic manta
Atlantic moonfish
Atlantic pollock
Atlantic pollocks
Atlantic pomfret
Atlantic provinces
Atlantic puffin
Atlantic ridley
Atlantic sailfish
Atlantic salmon

Literary usage of Atlantic cod

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

1. Using Market Mechanisms to Manage Fisheries: Smoothing the Path by Bertrand Le Gallic (2006)
"The most active vessels, as measured by the quantity of Atlantic cod landed in the 1987-89 period, were put under a vessel quota regime (the priority Group ..."

2. Subsidy Reform and Sustainable Development: Economic, Environmental and by workshop OECD, Publi Oecd Published by Oecd Publishing, Oecd. Published by (2006)
"This paper is a case study of why Canada's response to the 2003 closure of 3 Atlantic cod stocks did not include a LRP, whereas the response to closures of ..."

3. Financial Support to Fisheries: Implications for Sustainable Development by Anthony Cox, Carl-Christian Michael Roedsted Schmidt (2006)
"This paper is a case study of why Canada's response to the 2003 closure of 3 Atlantic cod stocks did not include a LRP, whereas the response to closures of ..."

4. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"With equal markets it would be as important commercially as the Atlantic cod. In the codfish (Gadus) and related genera there are three dorsal and two anal ..."

5. History of Alaska: 1730-1885 by Hubert Howe Bancroft, Alfred Bates, Ivan Petroff, William Nemos (1886)
"This is probably due to defect in curing,13 and perhaps in part to the fact that Atlantic cod has always been in favor on the Pacific coast. pound at the ..."

6. Trade and Structural Adjustment: Embracing Globalisation by OECD Staff (2005)
"... Atlantic cod 1. From 1994. 2. Denmark assumed to use the same share of the tariff quota as obtained for total EU imports and the tariff quota is assumed ..."

7. New English Canaan: Text, Notes, Biography & Criticism by Thomas Morton (1999)
"... or the Atlantic cod (Gad us morhua). As with animals etc above, the reader is cautioned that English terms for American fishes may refer to creatures ..."

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