Atlantic cod
nounEtymology Originally known as cod. The Atlantic was added later to distinguish this species from the related but distinct Pacific cod.
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Usually A sea fish, the Gadus morhua.
- Basques were not the first to cure cod. Centuries earlier, the Vikings had traveled from Norway to Iceland to Greenland to Canada, and it is not a coincidence that this is the exact range of the Atlantic cod.1997, Mark Kurlansky, “Chapter 1: The Race to Codlandia”, in Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, Walker, →ISBN: