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  1. noun Any of various marine fishes of the family Gadidae, especially Gadus morhua, an important food fish of northern Atlantic waters. Also called codfish.
  2. noun A husk or pod.
  3. noun Archaic The scrotum.
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  • Another possibility: fish eaten in the Mediterranean are not the high omega-3 fatty acid species, such as cod or salmon, which have been repeatedly linked to cardiovascular benefits. —  MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians
  • The cod was all right, I suppose, although my hubby loved it to bits. —  Giddy Tigers
  • In the pre-Civil War era, cod were the dominant fish species on the Scotian Shelf, but now their numbers are down by an astonishing 96 percent ...
  • Pollack is a relative of cod, which is caught in UK waters but also imported from the Pacific; and sales of sea bass, another farmed variety went up by up 27 per cent to 1,628 tons. —  Fishupdate.com
  • Birds Eye chief executive Martin Glenn recently disclosed that sales of its fish fingers made from pollack were outstripping those produced from cod, a trend it expected to continue. —  Fishupdate.com
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  1. Middle English.
  2. Middle English, from Old English codd.

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  1. from Middle English cod, codde, from Anglo-Saxon cod, codd, a bag, cod, pouch, = Middle Dutch kodde, scrotum, = Low German koden, kon, belly, paunch, = Icelandic koddi, a pillow, = Swedish kudde, a cushion, = Danish kodde, testicle (cf. Icelandic kodhri, scrotum). Cf. Welsh cwd, cod, sack, pouch. Hence codling.
  2. from cod, n.
  3. from Middle English cod (rare; cf. diminutive codling), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a particular application of Middle English cod, a shell, husk, bolster: see cod, n. Wedgwood cites Flemish kodde, a club, and compares Italian mazza, a club, with mazzo, a bunch, also a codfish; Italian testuto, French testu, applied to the codfish (and other fish), Italian testa, French teste, head. The orig. L. sense (testa, pot, shell, etc.) would support the derivation from cod, shell.
  4. Origin obscure.
  5. from cod, v.
  6. Cod, n.
 

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