pollack Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun United States filmmaker (born in 1934)
    Sydney Pollack.
  2. noun lean white flesh of North Atlantic fish; similar to codfish
    pollock.
  3. noun important food and game fish of northern seas (especially the northern Atlantic); related to cod
    pollock; Pollachius pollachius.

WordNet

Pol"lack noun
Etymology
Cf. G. & D. pollack, and Gael. pollag a little pool, a sort of fish.
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) (a) A marine gadoid food fish of Europe (Pollachius virens). Called also greenfish, greenling, lait, leet, lob, lythe, and whiting pollack. (b) The American pollock; the coalfish.

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