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Medicinal fish extract
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cod-liver oil
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Word definitions for cod-liver oil in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ We'd been filled with school milk and cod-liver oil and orange juice, but only the few scheme-housing children had bathrooms.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an oil obtained from the livers of cod and similar fishes; taken orally as a source of vitamins A and D [syn: cod liver oil ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of cod liver oil English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cod liver \Cod" liv`er\, n. The liver of the common cod and allied species. Cod-liver oil , an oil obtained from the liver of the codfish, and used extensively in medicine as a means of supplying the body with fat in cases of malnutrition.
Usage examples of cod-liver oil.
It can be employed as a substitute for cod-liver oil in scrofula, rickets, anaemia, debility following infectious diseases.
William, for fear of chills, was given a spoonful of cod-liver oil.
Fucol is a trade name for a cod-liver oil substitute, said to be obtained from roasted Bladderwrack with a bland oil.
Injected with cod-liver oil, the stoppers flapped their eyelashes until Haseloff with a tensing of his knees jumped up on the piano, an occurrence quite familiar to Felsner-Imbs and not at all harmful to the piano, for Haseloff was able, from a standing position, to make high, slow, and long leaps and land delicately on the brown piano lid without jolting the innards of the hard-tuned instrument.