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Fish extract
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cod-liver oil
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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 ]
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.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of cod liver oil English)
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.
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.