The phrase "a codfish" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific type of fish, either in a culinary context or in discussions about marine life.
Example: "For dinner, I decided to prepare a codfish with lemon and herbs."
Alternatives: "a cod" or "a cod species".
A codfish contains 1percenttotalal fat.
"New York has always been a codfish town, I don't know why," he said.
A codfish stew was marked "mild" on the menu but lacked taste as well as heat.
Another woman described him as possessing "a long colorless face that looked like a codfish crossed by a satyr".
The Bunraku puppet master received a Kokopelli figure, maple sugar, a drawing of a codfish, and chocolate.
I remember opening and closing my mouth like a codfish, and then bouncing up and down shouting: "Oh my God, yes, I'd love to.
Sitting there between my aunt and uncle, I imagined one of the church's long-standing members, a large and boisterous woman we called Sè Victor (Victor being her husband's name), appearing with an enormous plate of sweet plantains, swimming in a codfish-and-onion stew.
Economic motivations explained two forcing an immediate vote on a codfishing tariff and limiting military pensions to $50 per month ($ in present-day currency).
Like the porco alentejano, bacalhau Solmar, a lovely codfish entree, had a stewlike consistency.
His roommate at the Dirty Boardinghouse, for example, is said to look like "a bilious codfish attempting to swallow a cannon ball".
I sat across from her, my father and sister to my left and right, and crammed in the center was all the food I had made — a spicy codfish stew, say, or a casserole of gingery beef, dishes that in my youth she had prepared for us a hundred times.
