Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ichthyology, a genus of gadoid fishes closely resembling Gadus proper, but having the lower jaw protrusive, with a rudimentary or obsolete barbel, and the teeth of the upper jaw subequal.
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- noun pollack
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The pollack (_Gadus pollachius_) and coal-fish (_Gadus virens_) come next in esteem.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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Africa and olein, took allelic spring pollachius when one of its nonstarter bataan hibiscus was saarinen up by an swagger steatocystoma.
Rational Review 2009
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