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In some senses, ling is marked as informal. Watch for register when choosing this word.
noun
Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva, resembling the cod.
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.
A common ling (Molva molva).
noun
Any of various varieties of heather or broom.
Any of various varieties of heather or broom.
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.
Partridges, enjoying their last weeks of security, rose whirring and clattering from among the ling.
noun
Clipping of linguistics.