Thesaurus: ling

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1. 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.
2. a. The burbot of Lake Ontario.
3. a. An American hake of the genus Phycis.
4. a. 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.
5. n. Heather (Calluna vulgaris).
6. n. water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs
7. n. common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere
8. n. elongated marine food fish of Greenland and northern Europe; often salted and dried
9. n. American hakes
10. n. elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth
11. Heather (Calluna vulgaris). Ling honey, a sort of wild honey,made from the flowers of the heather. Holland.