DCHP-2

baccalao Various spellings. [< Pg. bacalhao codfish] DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 1a n. — Hist.

  codfish, Gadus morrhua.

• 1b n.

  dried codfish.

• 2

  in coastal Labrador and northeast Newfoundland, any of several birds of the family Alcidae, as the puffin, Fratercula artica, the razor-billed auk, Alca torda, the common murre, Uria aalge, and the thick-billed murre, U. lomvia.

  See also: baccalao bird