Although cod is more ubiquitous in restaurants, hake is my favorite white fish because it's slightly more tender.
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Hake
//heɪk//
Synonyms for "hake" (9 found)
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12 entriesTranslations
37 translations across 27 languages.
Asturian
2 entries- merluza noun (fish)
- pescada noun (fish)
Basque
1 entries- legatz noun (fish)
Breton
2 entries- merluch noun (fish)
- merluz noun (fish)
Bulgarian
1 entries- хек noun (fish)
Catalan
1 entries- lluç noun (fish)
Czech
3 entries- hejk noun (fish)
- mořská štika noun (fish)
- štikozubec noun (fish)
Danish
1 entries- kulmule noun (fish)
Dutch
1 entries- heek noun (fish)
Finnish
1 entries- kummeliturska noun (fish)
French
1 entries- merlu noun (fish)
Galician
1 entries- pescada noun (fish)
German
2 entries- Hechtdorsch noun (fish)
- Seehecht noun (fish)
Hungarian
1 entries- hekk noun (fish)
Irish
1 entries- colmóir noun (fish)
Italian
1 entries- nasello noun (fish)
Macedonian
1 entries- ослич noun (fish)
Norman
2 entries- colîn noun (fish)
- mèrluche noun (fish)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- lysing noun (fish)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- lysing noun (fish)
Polish
2 entries- morszczuk noun (fish)
- suszarnia noun (shed)
Portuguese
1 entries- merluza noun (fish)
Russian
2 entries- мерлу́за noun (fish)
- хек noun (fish)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- oslić noun (fish)
- sušara noun (shed)
Spanish
2 entries- merluza noun (fish)
- pescadilla noun (fish)
Tagalog
1 entries- merlusa noun (fish)
Turkish
1 entries- barlam noun (fish)
Welsh
1 entries- cegddu noun (fish)
Sample sentences
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The species eat squid, octopus, Pacific hake and other boney fishes, various cartilaginous fishes, and jawless fishes.
Source: tatoeba (12363178)
Hake is an expensive fish—and is also very vulnerable to damage by mis-handling.
Source: wiktionary
Off the United States, the National Marine Fisheries Service is helping industry explore fisheries for deep shrimp, rattails, chimeras, orange roughy, smoothheads, slackjaw eels, blue hake, skates and dogfish, which the National Fisheries Institute, an industry group, in an effort to improve their marketability, has renamed cape shark.
Source: wiktionary
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