Cusk

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  • noun. A food fish (Brosme brosme) of North Atlantic coastal waters that is related to the cod.
  • noun. undefined
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A local name in Great Britain of the torsk, a fish of the genus Brosmius, and in the United States of the burbot, Lota maculosa.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A large, edible, marine fish (Brosmius brosme), allied to the cod, common on the northern coasts of Europe and America; -- called also tusk and torsk.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A marine cod-like fish in the ling family Lotidae, Brosme brosme.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. large edible marine fish of northern coastal waters; related to cod
  • noun. elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth
  • noun. the lean flesh of a cod-like fish of North Atlantic waters
  • Word Usage
    "As is the case with most of the detached ridges in this gulf, the cusk is the most abundant of the fish present about the middle of March. continuing in good numbers through May."
    Hypernym
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    Rhyme
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    Rusk  brusque  busk  dusk  husk  
    Same Context
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    Synonym
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    torsk  
    variant
    torsk  tusk