gadiformgadiform means belonging to the order Gadiformes of ray-finned fish. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.EtymologyBy surface analysis, an anglicisation from New Latin Gadiformes, or, by surface analysis, translingual Gad(us) + -iform.adjBelonging to the order Gadiformes of ray-finned fish.“Near-synonyms: gadoid, codlike”nounAny fish of the order Gadiformes.“Codfish include ten families with more than 200 species. Almost all live in cold salt water in the Northern Hemisphere. Cod were thought to have developed into their current forms about 120 million years ago in the Tethys Sea, a tropical sea that once ran around the earth east-west and connected all other oceans. Eventually the Tethys merged with a northern sea, and the cod became a fish of the No”