cod, codfish

major food fish of arctic and cold-temperate waters

• codling — young codfish
• Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua — one of the world's most important commercial fishes
• Pacific cod, Alaska cod, Gadus macrocephalus — closely related to Atlantic cod
• burbot, eelpout, ling, cusk, Lota lota — elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth
• scrod, schrod — young Atlantic cod or haddock especially one split and boned for cooking

• gadoid, gadoid fish — a soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae

• Gadus, genus Gadus — type genus of the Gadidae: the typical codfishes