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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:

Nouns denoting animals

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:

Nouns denoting plants

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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