ling

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Any of various marine food fishes closely related to and resembling the cod, especially Molva molva of northern Atlantic waters, having a long body and a barbel on the chin.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Common heather, Calluna vulgaris.
• noun An adverbial suffix, forming adverbs from nouns, as in backling, darkling, groveling, headling, sideling, halfling, etc.
• noun A European gadoid fish, Molva molva or M. vulgaris (called by Cuvier Lota molva).
• noun An American gadoid fish, Lota maculosa, better known as the burbot, and also called lawyer and lake-lawyer.
• noun A chiroid fish, Ophiodon elongatus, better known as cultus-cod.
• noun Same as bay-cod.
• noun Same as conger-eel, 3.
• noun A termination having usually a diminutive or depreciative force, occurring in designations of persons, as darling, earthling, gadling, gadling, groundling, hireling, lordling, stripling, underling, worldling, etc., or of young animals, etc., as duckling, gosling, kidling, kitling, starling, firstling, nestling, yearling, etc.
• noun Same as beardy, 3.
• noun The water-chestnut of China, Trapa bicornis, largely used in China for food.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Bot.) Heather (Calluna vulgaris).
• noun a sort of wild honey, made from the flowers of the heather.
• noun Canada, Canada 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.
• noun Canada, Canada The burbot of Lake Ontario.
• noun Canada An American hake of the genus Phycis.
• noun 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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva resembling the cod.
• noun Short for common ling, Molva molva.
• noun Any of various varieties of heather or broom.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs
• noun common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere
• noun elongated marine food fish of Greenland and northern Europe; often salted and dried
• noun elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth
• noun American hakes