ling
1. water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs • Syn: ling ko, Trapa bicornis • Hypernyms: water chestnut, water chestnut plant, caltrop 2. common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere • Syn: heather, Scots heather, broom, Calluna vulgaris • Hypernyms: heath • Member Holonyms: Calluna, genus Calluna 3. elongated marine food fish of Greenland and northern Europe; often salted and dried • Syn: Molva molva • Hypernyms: gadoid, gadoid fish • Member Holonyms: Molva, genus Molva 4. American hakes • Hypernyms: hake • Member Holonyms: Urophycis, genus Urophycis 5. elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth • Syn: burbot, eelpout, cusk, Lota lota • Hypernyms: cod, codfish
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