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1. (n.) whiting
any of several kingfishes of the genus
Menticirrhus.
2. whiting
any of various hakes of the genus
Merluccius.
3. whiting
any of several European food fishes, esp. of the cod family.
4. (n.) whiting
pure-white chalk ground and washed and used in making putty, whitewash, and silver polish.
Etymology: (1400–50; late ME. See white , -ing1)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) whiting
flesh of a cod-like fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe
2. (noun) whiting
flesh of any of a number of slender food fishes especially of Atlantic coasts of North America
3. (noun) whiting
a small fish of the genus Sillago; excellent food fish
4. (noun) whiting
any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters
5. (noun) silver hake, Merluccius bilinearis, whiting
found off Atlantic coast of North America
6. (noun) whiting, Merlangus merlangus, Gadus merlangus
a food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) whiting
a common European food fish (Melangus vulgaris) of the Codfish family; -- called also fittin
2. (noun) whiting
a North American fish (Merlucius vulgaris) allied to the preceding; -- called also silver hake
3. (noun) whiting
any one of several species of North American marine sciaenoid food fishes belonging to genus Menticirrhus, especially M. Americanus, found from Maryland to Brazil, and M. littoralis, common from Virginia to Texas; -- called also silver whiting, and surf whiting
4. (noun) whiting
chalk prepared in an impalpable powder by pulverizing and repeated washing, used as a pigment, as an ingredient in putty, for cleaning silver, etc
5. whiting
of White
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Sense: a type of small fish related to the cod.
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 Afrikaans: klein vissie |
 Arabic: غُبَر: نوع من السَّمَك |
 Bulgarian: вид дребна морска риба |
 Brazilian: pescada |
 Czech: treska |
 German: der Weißfisch |
 Danish: hvilling |
 Greek: είδος μπακαλιάρου |
 Spanish: pescadilla |
 Estonian: hõbeheik |
 Farsi: ماهى نرم باله خوراکى |
 Finnish: valkoturska |
 French: merlan |
 Hebrew: דַג הַקֶרֶס |
 Hindi: खड़िया मिट्टी |
 Croatian: pešmolj, merlan |
 Hungarian: sárga tőkehal |
 Indonesian: ikan kecil |
 Icelandic: lÿsa; lÿsingur |
 Italian: merlango, merlano |
 Japanese: たらの一種 |
 Korean: 대구과의 식용 물고기 |
 Lithuanian: (plačiakrūtinis) merlanga |
 Malay: ikan whitting; sejenis ik |
 Dutch: wijting |
 Norwegian: hvitting |
 Polish: !!witlinek |
 Persian: ماهى نرم باله خوراکى |
 Pashto: يوډول اروپايى سپين كب، سپ |
 Portuguese: pescada |
 Romanian: merlan |
 Russian: мерланг |
 Slovak: belica, treska |
 Slovenian: belica (sladkovodna riba) |
 Serbian: vrsta ribe |
 Swedish: vitling |
 Thai: ปลาของยุโรปตระกูลปลาคอต |
 Turkish: mezgit |
 Taiwanese: 無鬚鱈 |
 Ukrainian: мерлан |
 Urdu: ایک قسم کی سمندری مچھلی |
 Vietnamese: cá tuyết |
 Chinese: 牙鳕 |
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