ling

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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. 2
   noun

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

3. 3
   noun

   American hakes

4. 4
   noun

   elongated marine food fish of Greenland and northern Europe

5. 5
   noun

   common Old World heath represented by many varieties

6. 6
   noun

   water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs

7. 7
   noun

   Any of various varieties of heather or broom.

8. 8
   noun

   Clipping of linguistics.

Etymology

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