whiting1

noun (plural same)

• 1a slender-bodied marine fish of the cod family, which lives in shallow European waters and is a commercially important food fish.

  • Merlangius merlangus, family Gadidae

• 2 [usually with modifier] any of a number of marine fishes similar to the whiting, in particular:

  • a fish of the Indo-Pacific (family Sillaginidae), including the commercially important Sillaginoides punctatus of Australia. the northern kingfish of eastern North America.