Ling

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various marine food fishes related to or resembling the cod, especially Molva molva of northern European waters.
  • n. See heather.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva resembling the cod.
  • n. Short for common ling, Molva molva.
  • n. Any of various varieties of heather or broom.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A large, marine, gadoid fish (Molva vulgaris) of Northern Europe and Greenland. It is valued as a food fish and is largely salted and dried. Called also drizzle.
  • n. The burbot of Lake Ontario.
  • n. An American hake of the genus Phycis.
  • n. A New Zealand food fish of the genus Genypterus. The name is also locally applied to other fishes, as the cultus cod, the mutton fish, and the cobia.
  • n. Heather (Calluna vulgaris).
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A European gadoid fish, Molva molva or M. vulgaris (called by Cuvier Lota molva).
  • n. An American gadoid fish, Lota maculosa, better known as the burbot, and also called lawyer and lake-lawyer.
  • n. A chiroid fish, Ophiodon elongatus, better known as cultus-cod.
  • n. Same as bay-cod.
  • n. Same as conger-eel, 3.
  • n. Common heather, Calluna vulgaris.
  • n. The water-chestnut of China, Trapa bicornis, largely used in China for food.
  • n. A termination having usually a diminutive or depreciative force, occurring in designations of persons, as darling, earthling, gadling, gadling, groundling, hireling, lordling, stripling, underling, worldling, etc., or of young animals, etc., as duckling, gosling, kidling, kitling, starling, firstling, nestling, yearling, etc.
  • n. An adverbial suffix, forming adverbs from nouns, as in backling, darkling, groveling, headling, sideling, halfling, etc.
  • n. Same as beardy, 3.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs
  • n. common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere
  • n. elongated marine food fish of Greenland and northern Europe; often salted and dried
  • n. elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth
  • n. American hakes
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    water chestnut plant    caltrop    water chestnut    heath    gadoid fish    gadoid    cod    codfish    hake   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    drizzle   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    heathen   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Beijing    Bing    Chongqing    Ging    Jing    King    Ming    Peking    Ping    Qing   
    Same Context
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    heartedness    young    pei    culator    worthe    fal    tering    arounde    -ster    fil