cod liver
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.71 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The menhaden ester fractions were worked up more thoroughly than the cod liver esters, but it was assumed, on the basis of the indicated similarity, that the cod liver oil possessed essentially the same composition as the menhaden. […] Bell (1851) wrote that pigs which ate cod livers became very fat, and their fat acquired the color and odor of cod liver oil."
- "Community Chick Mash / Yellow corn meal or hominy, feeding oat meal, wheat bran, wheat middlings, red dog middlings, alfalfa meal, dried milk, choice meat scraps, fish meal, precipitated bone meal, calcium carbonate, cod liver meal, cod liver oil, salt."
- "The Berliners stuffed themselves with fish. They ate cod and cod livers by preference, because this was a fatty, tasty dish and not too expensive. It was true that after eating cod liver you smelled of it for a long while, but the Berliners were highly vitamin-conscious by now—and rightly so."
- "They spent 40 days aboard Soviet vessel off Southern Labrador and observed fishing and processing of cod and ocean perch into fillets, canned cod liver, cod-liver oil, dressed cod and perch, and meal."
- "Canned cod liver is available any place, as are smoked flounder and German caviar, not to mention a wide selection of sardines."
- "A few years ago, during the 50s, there was no problem with cod liver. […] We could buy this product anywhere, in Quebec City and in Montreal; this canned cod liver was excellent, much better than the product which is now being sold by Denmark. […] I think we could do something about this cod liver which is produced on the Labrador Coast. […] Not only that, but most of the fishermen I talked to, in Newfoundland for example, the mere idea of eating cod liver makes them sick."