Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large, northern Pacific food fish (Ophiodon elongatus) of the family Hexagrammidae, having an elongated greenish-gray body.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The flesh of a lean-fleshed fish caught off the U.S. Pacific coast.
- noun A food fish (
Ophiodon elongatus ) of Northern Pacific waters related to greenlings.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun food fish of the northern Pacific related to greenlings
- noun the lean flesh of a fish caught off the Pacific coast of the United States
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Examples
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His favorite catch may have been something called a lingcod, "a really cool-looking fish that look like dragons and you have to drag them up from the bottom of the ocean."
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Not included in the marine bag limit are groundfish species such as lingcod, which has its own limit of two per day, and flatfish, like sole, flounder and sanddabs, which have a 25-fish daily limit.
unknown title 2009
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The Pacific lingcod population was rebuilt several years ahead of schedule.
Lee Crockett: Overfishing 101: Why Rebuilding Fish Populations Benefits Everyone Lee Crockett 2011
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Pacific Lingcod: When lingcod was found to be depleted in the Pacific Ocean in 1999, fisheries managers applied science-based measures to implement a 10-year rebuilding plan.
Lee Crockett: Overfishing 101: Why Rebuilding Fish Populations Benefits Everyone Lee Crockett 2011
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The Pacific lingcod population was rebuilt several years ahead of schedule.
Lee Crockett: Overfishing 101: Why Rebuilding Fish Populations Benefits Everyone Lee Crockett 2011
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Pacific Lingcod: When lingcod was found to be depleted in the Pacific Ocean in 1999, fisheries managers applied science-based measures to implement a 10-year rebuilding plan.
Lee Crockett: Overfishing 101: Why Rebuilding Fish Populations Benefits Everyone Lee Crockett 2011
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Salmon & Steelhead alaska trip for silver slamon rainbow trout dolly varden lingcod halibut on the kenai river ketchican quartz creek by jay cassell
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You can catch all five species of Pacific salmon, 5 - to 10-pound rainbow trout, grayling, Arctic char, Dolly Varden, and northern pike in freshwater; steelhead and sea-run cutthroats in the panhandle; and salmon, monster halibut, lingcod, and rockfish in the salt.
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Rinella hunts for crayfish and frogs and snapping turtle in his native Michigan, big game in Montana and Alaska, eels in New York, and lingcod and octopus on the Alaska coast.
"Foodies" vs AR? 2006
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Rinella hunts for crayfish and frogs and snapping turtle in his native Michigan, big game in Montana and Alaska, eels in New York, and lingcod and octopus on the Alaska coast.
Archive 2006-03-01 2006
ruzuzu commented on the word lingcod
“Initially, the octopus survey was launched to try to answer a question that staff members got regularly at the Seattle Aquarium: How many giant Pacific octopuses live in the Puget Sound? It turns out it’s not an easy question to answer, since there isn’t a firm population number for giant Pacifics.
These octopuses normally live about three years. They eat a lot of crustaceans, mollusks, squid, fish and sometimes other species of octopus. They are so big that they only really have to watch out for extremely large fish, such as halibut and lingcod, and some marine mammals. But they hatch from an egg the size of a rice grain, so for more than a year after they’re born, they are at the mercy of a wide array of predators.”
— https://www.citylab.com/environment/2018/11/giant-pacific-octopus-survey-puget-sound-seattle-aquarium/574408/
November 12, 2018
qms commented on the word lingcod
On the Great Puget Sound Octopus Survey
Beware what the scholars purvey!
Octopuses are coy in their way.
They’re dodgers and dancers,
You can’t trust their answers.
Who knows how they’ll twist a survey?
November 12, 2018
ruzuzu commented on the word lingcod
Lovely, qms! If I had at least three more sets of tentacle-y appendages, I'd be clapping them all together right now!
November 13, 2018