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1
- a slender-bodied marine fish of the cod family, which lives in shallow European waters and is a commercially important food fish牙鳕, 无须鳕。
1.1
- Merlangius merlangus, family Gadidae.拉丁名Merlangius merlangus, 鳕科。
2
- usu. with modifier any of a number of similar marine fishes, in particular鱼, 尤指：
2.1
- a fish of the Indo-pacific (family Sillaginidae), including the commercially important Sillaginoides punctatus of Australia（印度洋-太平洋产的）小鳍鳕（科）, 包括澳大利亚产的商业价值极高的斑点拟。
2.2
- the northern kingfish of eastern North America（北美东海岸产的）鱼。
词源
Middle English: from Middle Dutch wijting, from wijt 'white'.