Ling

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj The burbot of Lake Ontario.

II. Ling ·noun Heather (Calluna vulgaris).

III. Ling ·adj An American hake of the genus Phycis.

IV. Ling ·adj A New Zealand food fish of the genus Genypterus. The name is also locally applied to other fishes, as the cultus cod, the mutton fish, and the cobia.

V. Ling ·adj A large, marine, gadoid fish (Molva vulgaris) of Northern Europe and Greenland. It is valued as a food fish and is largely salted and dried. Called also drizzle.

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