Definitions
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- proper noun A taxonomic
family within theorder Gadiformes —marine fish such ascod andpollock .
Etymologies
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Gadus + -idae
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Examples
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Feeding and some features of ecology of Gadidae of the western Kamchatka shelf in summer 1996.
Fisheries and aquaculture in the North Pacific (Bering Sea) 2009
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BURBOT, or EEL-POUT (_Lota vulgaris_), a fish of the family Gadidae, which differs from the ling in the dorsal and anal fins reaching the caudal, and in the small size of all the teeth.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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Arctogadus glacialis (Peters, 1874) (Pisces: Gadidae) in the Northeast Water Polynya
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