Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun ling

5 senses of ling

Sense 1
ling, ling ko, Trapa bicornis -- (water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs)
       => water chestnut, water chestnut plant, caltrop -- (a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits)

Sense 2
heather, ling, Scots heather, broom, Calluna vulgaris -- (common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere)
       => heath -- (a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers)

Sense 3
ling, Molva molva -- (elongated marine food fish of Greenland and northern Europe; often salted and dried)
       => gadoid, gadoid fish -- (a soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae)

Sense 4
ling -- (American hakes)
       => hake -- (any of several marine food fishes related to cod)

Sense 5
burbot, eelpout, ling, cusk, Lota lota -- (elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth)
       => cod, codfish -- (major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters)