Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A gadoid fish, Brosmius brosme, belonging to the subfamily Brosmiinæ of the cod family.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The cusk. See cusk.
  • noun The codfish. Called also tusk.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An edible fish, Brosme brosme, also called cusk.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun large edible marine fish of northern coastal waters; related to cod

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Danish, Norwegian and Swedish torsk, cod, all from Old Norse thorskr; see ters- in Indo-European roots.]

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