ling

ling ¹  (lng)

n. pl. ling or lings

Any of various marine food fishes related to or resembling the cod, especially Molva molva of northern European waters.

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[Middle English, possibly of Low German origin; see del-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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ling ²  (lng)

n.

See heather.

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[Middle English, from Old Norse lyng.]

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ling ¹

Noun

pl ling or lings a fish with a long slender body [probably Low German]

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ling ²

Noun

heather [Old Norse lyng]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	ling - water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs ling ko, Trapa bicornis water chestnut, water chestnut plant, caltrop - a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits
	2.	ling - common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere Calluna vulgaris, heather, Scots heather, broom heath - a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers Calluna, genus Calluna - one species
	3.	ling - elongated marine food fish of Greenland and northern Europe; often salted and dried Molva molva gadoid, gadoid fish - a soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae genus Molva, Molva - ling
	4.	ling - American hakes hake - any of several marine food fishes related to cod genus Urophycis, Urophycis - hakes
	5.	ling - elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth burbot, Lota lota, eelpout, cusk codfish, cod - major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters