klipfish

English

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

• clipfish

Etymology

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Noun

klipfish (countable and uncountable, plural klipfishes)

1. Sun-dried salted cod, exported from Norway.
2. A fish of certain genera in the family Clinidae.

References

• “klipfish”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.