ling — ozdic

Collocations

3

ADJ.

blue, blue, southern, unfinished

LING + NOUN

chinese, heather

PREP.

among, from, with

Definitions

noun

1

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.

2

A common ling (Molva molva).

noun

1

Any of various varieties of heather or broom.

2

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

1

Clipping of linguistics.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and Nort

burbot
eelpout
cusk

noun — common Old World heath represented by many varieties

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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01

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,

Wiktionary

02

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.

Wiktionary

03

Partridges, enjoying their last weeks of security, rose whirring and clattering from among the ling.

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04

My surname is Ling.

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05

Ling is a Chinese citizen.

Tatoeba · #7840912

06

Grandma Ling died with unfinished business. It is said that to this day no one has dared to live in that house.

Tatoeba · #11406536

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, ling is marked as informal. Watch for register when choosing this word.