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codling

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for codling.

Editorial note

Fruit trees: Including apples, oranges, and stone fruits to manage pests like codling moth and citrus thrips.

Examples9
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A small, immature apple

Meaning at a glance

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noun

A small, immature apple

noun

Any of various greenish, elongated English apple varieties, used for cooking

noun

A young small cod.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for codling.

noun

A small, immature apple

noun

Any of various greenish, elongated English apple varieties, used for cooking

noun

A young small cod.

noun

A hake (cod-related food fish), notably from the genus Urophycis.

Example sentences

1

Fruit trees: Including apples, oranges, and stone fruits to manage pests like codling moth and citrus thrips.

2

Don't think the English were codling the peasants much back then.

3

Dumber things have been tried (codling tech workers).

4

When I was a kid I had the job of spraying our apple trees with PbHAsO4 aka arsenate of lead to protect the apples against fruit fly and Codling moth.

5

For around a hundred years until only several decades ago fruit trees, especially apple and pear trees, were sprayed with the insecticide lead arsenate (lead hydrogen arsenate, PbHAsO4) to protect against codling moth and such.

6

Codling moths are definitely going to be an issue.

7

The east coast around Dublin (fortuitously, as the major population center) has good banks in relatively shallow waters ~10-20km offshore (Oriel, Kish, Bray, Codling, Arklow banks).

Proper noun examples

1

Codling moths are definitely going to be an issue.

2

The east coast around Dublin (fortuitously, as the major population center) has good banks in relatively shallow waters ~10-20km offshore (Oriel, Kish, Bray, Codling, Arklow banks).

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use codling in a sentence?

Fruit trees: Including apples, oranges, and stone fruits to manage pests like codling moth and citrus thrips.

What does codling mean?

A small, immature apple

What part of speech is codling?

codling is commonly used as noun.