[kuhsk] 
) cusk. | 1. | an edible marine fish, Brosme brosme, of North Atlantic coastal waters. |
| 2. | the burbot. |
| bur·bot (bûr'bət) n. pl. burbot or bur·bots A freshwater food fish (Lota lota) of the Northern Hemisphere, related to and resembling the cod and having barbels on the nose and chin. Also called cusk, eelpout. [Middle English, from Old French borbote, from borbeter, to move about in mud.] |
| cusk (kŭsk) n. pl. cusk or cusks
[Probably alteration of tusk, a kind of codfish, perhaps from dialectal Norwegian, variant of Norwegian torsk, tosk, from Old Norse thorskr; see ters- in Indo-European roots.] |