ling

Noun

• elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth

• American hakes

• elongated marine food fish of Greenland and northern Europe; often salted and dried

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

• water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  burbot , eelpout , cusk , Lota lota , Molva molva , heather , Scots heather , broom , Calluna vulgaris , ling ko , Trapa bicornis