ling (n.)

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

    [ Syn: ling ko , trapa bicornis ]

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

    [ Syn: heather , scots heather , broom , calluna vulgaris ]

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

    [ Syn: molva molva ]

  4. American hakes

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

    [ Syn: burbot , eelpout , cusk , lota lota ]

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