noun · rare

haddock

пікша

пикша

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A saltwater fish, Melanogrammus aeglefinus, of the North Atlantic, important as a food…A saltwater fish, Melanogrammus aeglefinus, of the North Atlantic, important as a food fish.

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/ˈhædək/

» I much prefer haddock to cod.

Meaning

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A saltwater fish, Melanogrammus aeglefinus, of the North Atlantic, important as a food fish.
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important food fish on both sides of the Atlantic; related to cod but usually smaller

Examples

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I much prefer haddock to cod.
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Tom ate a lot of haddock growing up in Boston.
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Gadiformes are an order that cod, haddock and other sea species belong to.
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Haddock are closely related to cod.
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Haddock can lay over a million eggs in one spawning.
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Translations

9 languages

Українська

By meaning 1

marine fish:

Русский

By meaning 1

marine fish:

Deutsch

By meaning 1

marine fish:

Origin

From Middle English haddok. Compare Anglo-Norman hadoc from Old French hadot, probably fro

From Middle English haddok. Compare Anglo-Norman hadoc from Old French hadot, probably from an English source. Further origin uncertain, but hadot could have evolved from (h)adoux, (h)adoz, from adoub, from adouber, adober (“to prepare”), cognate with Italian addobbare (“to souse fish or meat”).

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