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LING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth
Synonyms:
burbot; cusk; eelpout; ling; Lota lota
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("ling" is a kind of...):
cod; codfish (major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters)
Sense 2
Meaning:
American hakes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("ling" is a kind of...):
hake (any of several marine food fishes related to cod)
Holonyms ("ling" is a member of...):
genus Urophycis; Urophycis (hakes)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Elongated marine food fish of Greenland and northern Europe; often salted and dried
Synonyms:
ling; Molva molva
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("ling" is a kind of...):
gadoid; gadoid fish (a soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae)
Holonyms ("ling" is a member of...):
genus Molva; Molva (ling)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere
Synonyms:
broom; Calluna vulgaris; heather; ling; Scots heather
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("ling" is a kind of...):
heath (a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers)
Holonyms ("ling" is a member of...):
Calluna; genus Calluna (one species)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs
Synonyms:
ling; ling ko; Trapa bicornis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("ling" is a kind of...):
caltrop; water chestnut; water chestnut plant (a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits)
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