pollack

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A marine food fish (Pollachius virens) of northern Atlantic waters, related to the cod.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A fish of the genus Pollachius. The true pollack, of European waters only, is P. pollachius or P. typus, also called green-cod, greenfish, green-ling, laithe, laits, leeat, leet, leets, lythe, lob, sheet, and whiting-pollack. The green pollack of Atlantic waters, both European and American, is a closely related species, P. virens or P. carbonarius, called coalfish (and by many other names) in England. Both these fishes are greenish-brown above, with the sides and the belly silvery, the lateral line pale, and the fins mostly pale; but the true pollack has a much more projecting under jaw, the snout twice as long as the eye, the vent more in advance (being below the anterior half of the first dorsal fin), and the first anal fin much longer. The pollack of Pacific waters, P. chalcogrammus, is more decidedly different. Like the cod, hake, and haddock, the pollacks are among the important food-fishes of the family Gadidæ.

Wiktionary

1. n. alternative spelling of pollock.
2. v. alternative spelling of pollock.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A marine gadoid food fish of Europe (Pollachius virens). Called also greenfish, greenling, lait, leet, lob, lythe, and whiting pollack.
2. n. The American pollock; the coalfish.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. lean white flesh of North Atlantic fish; similar to codfish
2. n. important food and game fish of northern seas (especially the northern Atlantic); related to cod
3. n. United States filmmaker (born in 1934)