lingcod

1. 1.

   the lean flesh of a fish caught off the Pacific coast of the United States

   Broadersaltwater fish
2. 2.

   food fish of the northern Pacific related to greenlings

   SynonymsOphiodon elongatus

   Broaderscorpaenoid

   Part ofOphiodon

Other forms of lingcod

plural

lingcods·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lingcod

What does lingcod mean?

lingcod means "the lean flesh of a fish caught off the Pacific coast of the United States". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lingcod?

lingcod has 2 syllables: ling-cod. The stress falls on "ling".

What is another word for lingcod?

Close synonyms include Ophiodon elongatus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lingcod a common word?

lingcod is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.