ling

Definitions

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

Equivalents

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.”

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