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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:

Nouns denoting animals

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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