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COD COD - CODEINE CODEX - CUDIFICATION 13 C [ CODIFICATION. 172 COD , a marine , primarily bottom - living fish found in cool waters . It is also known as codfish . The most important and most common species of cod is the Atlantic , or ...
COD COD - CODEINE CODEX - CUDIFICATION 13 C [ CODIFICATION. 172 COD , a marine , primarily bottom - living fish found in cool waters . It is also known as codfish . The most important and most common species of cod is the Atlantic , or ...
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... Atlantic coasts to the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Cape Breton Island . The Green- land cod is very similar in shape to the Atlantic cod , but it lacks the characteristic round spots of the common cod , and its eye is slightly larger ...
... Atlantic coasts to the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Cape Breton Island . The Green- land cod is very similar in shape to the Atlantic cod , but it lacks the characteristic round spots of the common cod , and its eye is slightly larger ...
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... cod and herring banks of Newfound- land , the broad Atlantic also became the scene of the Nantucket whaling industry , for oil was a valued fuel for lamps . Another basic resource was found in the Northern woods , where timber abounded ...
... cod and herring banks of Newfound- land , the broad Atlantic also became the scene of the Nantucket whaling industry , for oil was a valued fuel for lamps . Another basic resource was found in the Northern woods , where timber abounded ...
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