English > gadoid fish: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | A soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae. |
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| Synonym | gadoid |
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| Member of | Gadidae, family Gadidae | large family of important mostly marine food fishes |
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| Narrower | cod, codfish | major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters |
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| cusk, torsk, Brosme brosme | large edible marine fish of northern coastal waters |
| grenadier, rattail, rattail fish | Deep-sea fish with a large head and body and long tapering tail |
| haddock, Melanogrammus aeglefinus | Important food fish on both sides of the Atlantic |
| hake | Any of several marine food fishes related to cod |
| ling, Molva molva | elongated marine food fish of Greenland and northern Europe |
| pollack, pollock, Pollachius pollachius | Important food and game fish of northern seas (especially the northern Atlantic) |
| whiting, Merlangus merlangus, Gadus merlangus | A food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the cod |
| Broader | soft-finned fish, malacopterygian | Any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii |
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| Spanish | gádido, gadiforme, pez gadiforme |
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| Catalan | gàdid |
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