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lingcod \lingcod\ n.

  1. The flesh of a lean-fleshed fish caught off the U.S. Pacific coast. [WordNet sense 1]

  2. A food fish ( Ophiodon elongatus) of Northern Pacific waters related to greenlings. [WordNet sense 2]

    Syn: Ophiodon elongatus.

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lingcod
  1. n. the lean flesh of a fish caught off the Pacific coast of the United States

  2. food fish of the northern Pacific related to greenlings [syn: Ophiodon elongatus]

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Lingcod

The lingcod or ling cod (Ophiodon elongatus), also known as the buffalo cod or cultus cod, is a fish of the greenling family Hexagrammidae. It is the only extant member of the genus ''Ophiodon. ''A slightly larger, extinct species, Ophiodon ozymandias, is known from fossils from the Late Miocene of Southern California.''

Ophiodon elongatus is native to the North American west coast from Shumagin Islands in the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California, Mexico. It has been observed up to a size of and a weight of . It is spotted in various shades of grey. The lingcod is a popular eating fish, and is thus prized by anglers. Though not closely related to either ling or cod, the name "lingcod" originated because it somewhat resembles those fish. Around 20% of lingcods have blue-green to turquoise flesh. The colour is destroyed by cooking. The colour may be due to biliverdin, but this has not been established beyond doubt.

Usage examples of "lingcod".

A couple of five-foot giant sea bass flicked by below him, muscular, scaly brutes, then a school of bright orange garibaldi fish, and the bottom held lingcod and kelp bass and others by the dozens.