Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Variant of pollack.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See pollack.
Wiktionary
- n. Either of two lean, white marine food fishes, of the genus Pollachius, related to cod.
- v. To fish for pollock.
- v. To splatter, as with paint.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A marine gadoid fish (Pollachius carbonarius), native both of the European and American coasts. It is allied to the cod, and like it is salted and dried. In England it is called
coalfish ,lob ,podley ,podling ,pollack , etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. United States artist famous for painting with a drip technique; a leader of abstract expressionism in America (1912-1956)
- n. lean white flesh of North Atlantic fish; similar to codfish
- n. important food and game fish of northern seas (especially the northern Atlantic); related to cod
Etymologies
- From Jackson Pollock (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The pollock, which is not plenty, is taken only in the spring.”
Internet Archive: Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
“The ones in British waters include Anton Dohrn off Rockall, home to species such as pollock, cod, hake, monkfish, redfish, squat lobsters and oreo fish.”
“Some scientists and fishing industry players say it's conceivable that commercially valuable seafood species such as pollock or crab populations could expand in the Arctic, which could draw fishing fleets.”
“I thought 'pollock' was a relatively new term for this fish.”
“George Leonard, a marine ecologist and aquaculture director for the Ocean Conservancy, said that requiring organic operations to use feed made of trimmings from sustainable wild-caught fish, such as pollock, or from organically farmed fish would be better than relying on the small, wild fish farmers currently use.”
“A Los Angeles taxidermist created a pollock with a remote control device to operate his mouth and tail.”
“The sandwich is made with cod as well as pollock, but that fish looked too scary.”
“So the only pollock she will consider is the frozen variety.”
Voice of America: Seafood Sales Sink in S. Korea Due to Radiation Fears
“Kim Hyun-yi says she and her colleagues are now throwing away pollock, by the boxes.”
Voice of America: Seafood Sales Sink in S. Korea Due to Radiation Fears
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pollock’.
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fish list
lots and lots of fish, a piscatorial
wetdreamablet, agnathan, ahi, ahuru, ahuruhuru, albacore, albicore, alec, alewife, allice, allis, amberjack and 840 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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PECH - marine species
African cuttlefish, Alaska plaice, Alaska pollock, Alaska pollack, walleye pollock, alewife, gaspereau, river herring, sawbelly, allis shad, American angler, goosefish and 994 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Critters
cockle, cicada, appaloosa, brachiopod, bivalve, aye-aye, cygnet, alewife, chamois, ermine, drake, dugong and 381 more...
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Henry's Favorite Song
being sorts of Fish
fish, walleye, bass, catfish, carp, pike, sunfish, cod, monkfish, salmon, tuna, shark and 59 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for pollock.
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