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Meaning of ling | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1 Standard
lɪŋ

Definitions

  1. A surname.
  2. Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva, resembling the cod.
  3. Any of various varieties of heather or broom.
  4. Clipping of linguistics.
  5. A common ling (Molva molva).
  6. Common heather (Calluna vulgaris)

Equivalents

Čeština mník
Cymraeg honos
Español maruca
Suomi molva
Français lotte
Gaeilge langa
Gàidhlig fraoch langa
Galego carpaza maruca
Íslenska langa
Kurdî leng
Te Reo Māori hoka
Nederlands leng
Svenska länga ljung

Examples

“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.”
“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.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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