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bacaladero

cod-fishing

adjective bah-kah-lah-DEH-roh Rare
Food & Drink Meat

Also means

relating to cod

Usage Note

Bacaladero describes anything related to cod fishing or the cod industry: flota bacaladera (cod fleet), puerto bacaladero (cod-fishing port). Like atunero, it can also be used as a noun for the vessel or worker. The Basque Country and Galicia have deep cod-fishing traditions, making this term especially common in those regional contexts.

Examples

"La flota bacaladera partió hacia el Atlántico Norte."

Natural Translation

The cod-fishing fleet set out for the North Atlantic.

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