Crossword clues for cod-liver oil
cod-liver oil
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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
n. (alternative form of cod liver oil English)
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]
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.