ling en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /lɪŋ/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
- (Southern-England) audio
- lĭng (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
From Middle English lenge, of Germanic origin. Cognate with Old Norse langa. Probably related to long.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) 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:
- (countable, especially, uncountable) Any of various codlike saltwater fish often used as food by humans, those of the genus Molva, in the family Lotidae. ▸ A common ling (Molva molva).
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ling | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| lings | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
hake · torsk · haddock · whiting · torsk · pollock · whiting · hake · tusk · cod · cusk · haddock · pollock · tusk · cusk · cod
Deriveds
blue ling · ling fish · common ling · lingcod
Hypernyms
lotid · gadid · creature · fish · vertebrate · animal · vertebrate · organism · creature · gadiform · animal · gadiform · fish · gadid · organism · lotid
Translations (20)
pl molwa (Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva) · fr lotte (Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva) · enm lenge (Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva) · mi hokarari (Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva) · ga bod mór (Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva) · mi hoka (Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva) · es maruca (Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva) · is langa (Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva) · fo longa (Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva) · ca llengua de bacallà (Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva) · sv långa (Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva) · cy honos (Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva) · nl leng (Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva) · gd langa (Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva) · cs mník (Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva) · fi molva (Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva) · hu gadóchal (Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva) · gl maruca (Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva) · ga langa (Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva) · non langa (Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva)