bacalaon.
/bakəˈlɑːəʊ/ a. Cod-fish. spec. dried or salted cod-fish. Also in Portuguese form bacalhau.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > cured fish > dried fish
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > family Gadidae > genus Gadus > gadus morhua (common cod)
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1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. vi. f. 119 Cabot him selfe, named those landes Baccallaos, bycause that in the seas therabout he founde so great multitudes of certeyne bigge fysshes..which thinhabitantes caule Baccallaos.
1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) II. v. xvii. 271/1 Merchants trading into Spain and Portugal [export]..Pilchards, Salmon, Poor Jack or Bacalow.
1749 Wealth Great Brit. in Ocean 54 Cod finely wet cured, are much better eating than baccalao.
1762 Gentleman's Mag. (1806) Mar. 121/1 Fishing upon the banks of Newfoundland for baccallao.
1765 London Chron. 14 Feb. 160 Large Baccalio and fine old Ling.
1885 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 104/2 Consumers of the salted cod or baccalao.
1955 M. McCarthy On Contrary (1961) i. 116 A golden bacalhau (dried cod, done with egg yolks, black olives, sauté potatoes, and onions).
1962 Times 13 Apr. 19/1 Bacalhau is as traditional [in Portugal] as the roast beef of England.
b. bacalao-bird n.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Alcidae (auks) > [noun] > member of genus Uria (guillemot)
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1865 P. H. Gosse Land & Sea 44 Guillemots' eggs, in Newfoundland well known by the name of Baccalao-birds' eggs.
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