lings

Noun (1)

ling (countable and uncountable, plural lings or ling)

1. 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.1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times
   1. (especially) A common ling (Molva molva).

Noun (2)

ling (countable and uncountable, plural lings or ling)

1. Any of various varieties of heather or broom.
   1. 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.1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 28

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