rock cod

noun

Examples of rock cod in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The brunch menu is eye-catching, too, with bananas Foster French toast, a rock cod sandwich, and a seafood platter, among other options. Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 5 Feb. 2024 Seafood from the oven may be blue shrimp with green mango, apple, daikon, and charred almonds or rock cod with roasted fennel. Tori Latham, Robb Report, 8 Aug. 2023 His menu features a $45, three-course fixed price lunch menu that began, in one recent example, with a fennel, radish and arugula salad, followed by a stew of rock cod, Dungeness crab and manila clams, and ended with olive oil walnut cake with pomegranate. Adam Nagourney, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2021 Krieger previously sold whole black cod directly from his boat before the 2020 fire took out his black cod pots along with rock cod gear and about 350 crab pots that he’s had to replace at about $400 each. Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Oct. 2021 In fact, the most common local hunters, like wrasses, rock cod and coral trout have eyes that block out UV light for the sake of better contrast and less retinal damage. Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2010 Rockfish—also known as Pacific snapper or rock cod—is one of the most sustainable and widely available fish in the West, and has a mildly sweet flavor. Sunset Staff, Sunset Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

1634, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of rock cod was in 1634

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“Rock cod.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rock%20cod. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.

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