codfish
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codfish,
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codfishes
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While populations of herring and codfish, which lay millions of eggs, are able to quickly bounce back, harbour porpoises only have one calf a year.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 7, 2024
“I would like to have my codfish back, for sure. We could make some money on them. But that’s never going to happen,” Alexander said.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2023
Its specialties include regional staples such as the Fisherman’s Brewis, which includes cooked hard bread and codfish mixed with fried onions and pork scrunchions.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2022
He said correction officers had effectively handed control of the unit to a gang leader known as Bacalao, the Spanish word for salted codfish.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2022
She returned a few minutes later with a large pot of codfish and ackee, the official dish of Jamaica, and a large helping of grits.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
She was still suspected of it; indeed, I think that in the minds of the black satin codfishes circumstantial evidence had tinkered suspicion into certainty.
From Set in Silver by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
In Nova Scotia, where many codfishes are caught, the swim-bladders are called sounds, and are cooked as a delicacy.
From The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young by Margaret Warner Morley
The codfish backed me up at every step, and other codfishes swam the green sea, with hats doubtless brought from unseen coral caves.
From Set in Silver by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
A single codfish, in a single season, will lay six million eggs, nearly all of which perish, of course, or else in a few years the ocean could not hold all the codfishes.
From Through Nature to God by John Fiske
Seeing that I had gone mad, the wily codfishes took advantage of my state, and flourished things before my eyes, at which Emily instantly forbade me to look.
From Set in Silver by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
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