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Ling
//lɪŋ// name, noun, slang
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Noun
- 1 Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva, resembling the cod. countable, uncountable
"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 varieties of heather or broom. countable, uncountable
- 3 Clipping of linguistics. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, uncountable
- 4 elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth wordnet
- 5 A common ling (Molva molva). countable, uncountable
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- 6 Any of various varieties of heather or broom.; Common heather (Calluna vulgaris) countable, uncountable
"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."
- 7 American hakes wordnet
- 8 elongated marine food fish of Greenland and northern Europe; often salted and dried wordnet
- 9 common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere wordnet
- 10 water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs wordnet
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English lenge, from Middle French leynge (compare French lingue), from Middle Dutch *lenge (modern Dutch leng). Cognate with Old Norse langa. Probably related to long.
Etymology 2
From Middle English lyng, from Old Norse lyng.
Etymology 3
From Mandarin 令 (Lìng)， 凌 (Líng) or Eastern Min 林 (Lìng).
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