LING

burbot, eelpout, ling, cusk, Lota lota

(noun) elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth

ling

(noun) American hakes

ling, Molva molva

(noun) elongated marine food fish of Greenland and northern Europe; often salted and dried

heather, ling, Scots heather, broom, Calluna vulgaris

(noun) common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere

ling, ling ko, Trapa bicornis

(noun) water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

ling (countable and uncountable, plural lings or ling)

Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva, resembling the cod.

The common ling, Molva molva.

Etymology 2

Noun

ling (countable and uncountable, plural lings or ling)

Any of various varieties of heather or broom.

Common heather (Calluna vulgaris)

Etymology 3

Noun

ling (uncountable)

(informal) Clipping of linguistics.

Anagrams

• lign-

Proper noun

Ling (plural Lings)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Ling is the 3887^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 9127 individuals. Ling is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (55.2%) and White (33.76%) individuals.

Anagrams

• lign-

Source: Wiktionary

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-ling. Etym: [AS. -ling.]

Definition: A noun suffix, commonly having a diminutive or a depreciatory force; as in duck-ling, dosling, hireling, fosterling, firstling, underling.

-ling

Definition: . An adverbial suffix; as, darkling, flatling.

Ling, n. Etym: [OE. lenge; akin to D. leng, G. länge, Dan. lange, Sw. l, Icel. langa. So named from its being long. See Long, a.] (Zoöl.) (a) 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. (b) The burbot of Lake Ontario. (c) An American hake of the genus Phycis. [Canada] (d) 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.

Ling, n. Etym: [Icel. lyng; akin to Dan. lyng, Sw. ljung.] (Bot.)

Definition: Heather (Calluna vulgaris). Ling honey, a sort of wild honey, made from the flowers of the heather. Holland.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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