Crossword-Solution: GADID 5 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The delicate Salmonidæ and the Pleuronectidæ,--families to which the salmon and turbot belong,--were ushered into being as early as the times of the Chalk; but the Gadidæ or cod family,--that family to which the cod proper, the haddock, the dorse, the whiting, the coal-fish, the pollock, the hake, the torsk, and the ling belong, with many other useful and wholesome species,--did not precede man by at least any period of time appreciable to the geologist.

The males die without developing further, but the females seek a second host, a fish of the family Gadidæ, such as the Cod, Haddock, etc., and, settling on the gills, become metamorphosed (Fig.

The _Gadidæ_ family includes some most important fish, commercially considered, such as the whiting, haddock, and cod, the general form and peculiarities of which are familiar to all.

Two families (Lycodidæ and Gadidæ) are found in the Arctic and Antarctic seas only, though the {465}latter family has a single species in the Indian seas.