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ling¹

  • /lɪŋ/ US, UK

Rhymes with -ɪŋ

Where it comes from

From Middle English lenge, of Germanic origin. Cognate with Old Norse langa. Probably related to long.

noun lings · ling

  1. countable, uncountable Any of various codlike saltwater fish often used as food by humans, those of the genus Molva, in the family Lotidae. Other deep creatures now being harvested or targeted as seafood include rattails, skates, squid, red crabs, orange roughy, black oreos, smooth oreos, hoki, blue ling, southern blue whiting, sablefish, black scabbard fish and spiny dogfish.
  2. countable, especially, uncountable A common ling (Molva molva).

ling²

  • /lɪŋ/ US, UK

Rhymes with -ɪŋ

Where it comes from

From Middle English ling, linge, from Old Norse lyng.

noun lings · ling

  1. countable, uncountable Any of various varieties of heather or broom.
  2. countable, uncountable Common heather (Calluna vulgaris) I was sitting by a path on a tussock between some bushes, whence I could overlook the path and a little valley to which it led down, and where nothing but ling and heather grew.

ling³

  • /lɪŋ/ US, UK

Rhymes with -ɪŋ

noun

  1. abbreviation, clipping, informal, uncountable Clipping of linguistics

Ling⁴

Where it comes from

From Mandarin 令 (Lìng)， 凌 (Líng) or Eastern Min 林 (Lìng).

proper noun Lings

  1. A surname.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: cusk, burbot, eelpout, heather, broom, calluna vulgaris, ling ko, lota lota, molva molva, scots heather, trapa bicornis, codfish, ridge, jaw, sui, wong

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Every language

noun Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva

Españolmaruca
Françaislotte

noun Any of various varieties of heather or broom

DeutschBesenheide
Italianobrugo

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@misc{ling_2026,
  title = {ling},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ling},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}