Noun | 1. | family Gadidae - large family of important mostly marine food fishes fish family - any of various families of fish Gadiformes, order Gadiformes - cods, haddocks, grenadiers; in some classifications considered equivalent to the order Anacanthini gadoid, gadoid fish - a soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae Gadus, genus Gadus - type genus of the Gadidae: the typical codfishes genus Merlangus, Merlangus - whitings genus Lota, Lota - burbot genus Melanogrammus, Melanogrammus - haddock genus Pollachius, Pollachius - pollack genus Merluccius, Merluccius - hakes genus Urophycis, Urophycis - hakes genus Molva, Molva - ling Brosmius, genus Browmius - cusk |