codling

Immature sea catch

A codling is a young or small cod, the North Atlantic fish.

The word also names a variety of elongated cooking apple, harvested before fully ripe and used primarily for baking and sauce: codling and cream, codling moth—the latter being a pest whose larvae tunnel into apples.

Both senses share the diminutive suffix.

moth

larva

Immature feeding stage

larvae · moth · fruitworm · damage · hatching · instar · pupa · metamorphosis · entomology · Lepidoptera

fish

codfish

North Atlantic food fish

ling · tomcod · pollock · fry · fingerling · juvenile · trawling · filleting · salting · stockfish

apple

pie

Crust-enclosed baked dish

  • tartSharp-flavored small pie
  • crumbleFragment gradually
  • ciderPressed apple beverage

baking · cinnamon · sugar · pastry · filling · dessert · cooking · stewing · preserving · pectin

orchard

trees

Woody plants with trunks

grafting · pollination · fruit · horticulture · rootstock · picking · varieties · grove · saplings · cultivar

Categories
Opposites
maturity/development

codlingripe fruit

Fully developed edible harvest

overripe fruit · fallen fruit

size

codlingfull-grown

At maximum size

jumbo · oversized · giant

maturity/growth stage

codlingbroodstock

Animals reserved for reproduction

Family

coddle, cod, coddled, coddling, coddles, coddler

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G