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HAKE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several marine food fishes related to cod
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("hake" is a kind of...):
gadoid; gadoid fish (a soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hake"):
Merluccius bilinearis; silver hake; whiting (found off Atlantic coast of North America)
ling (American hakes)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("hake" is a kind of...):
fish (the flesh of fish used as food)
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