ling — English Dictionary

Noun

1. Any of various codlike saltwater fish often used as food by humans, those of the genus Molva, in the family Lotidae.

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   • Uncountable

   Broader terms

   lotidgadidgadiformfishvertebrateanimalorganismcreature

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   Other deep creatures now being harvested or targeted as seafood include rattails, skates, squid, red crabs, orange roughy, black oreos, smooth oreos, hoki, blue ling, southern blue whiting, sablefish, black scabbard fish and spiny dogfish.

2. Any of various codlike saltwater fish often used as food by humans, those of the genus Molva, in the family Lotidae. A common ling (Molva molva).

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   • Countable
   • especially
   • Uncountable

Noun

1. Any of various varieties of heather or broom.

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2. Any of various varieties of heather or broom. Common heather (Calluna vulgaris)

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   I was sitting by a path on a tussock between some bushes, whence I could overlook the path and a little valley to which it led down, and where nothing but ling and heather grew.

   Partridges, enjoying their last weeks of security, rose whirring and clattering from among the ling.

Noun

1. water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs

   Synonyms

   ling koTrapa bicornis

   Broader terms

   water chestnutwater chestnut plantcaltrop

2. common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere

   Synonyms

   heatherScots heatherbroomCalluna vulgaris

   Broader terms

   heath

3. elongated marine food fish of Greenland and northern Europe; often salted and dried

   Synonyms

   Molva molva

   Broader terms

   gadoidgadoid fish

4. American hakes

   Broader terms

   hake

5. elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth

   Synonyms

   burboteelpoutcuskLota lota

   Broader terms

   codcodfish