Meaning

noun the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves)

noun lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached

noun major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters

originFrom Middle English cod, codde, from Old English cod, codd (“bag, pouch”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuddō, from Proto-Germanic *kuddô, from Proto-Indo-European *gewt- (“pouch, sack”), from *gew- (“to bend, bow, arch, vault, curve”). Cognate with Scots cod, codd, coad, kod (“pillow, cushion”), German Low German Koden, Kon (“belly, paunch”), Middle Dutch codde (“scrotum”), Danish kodde…

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