ling

Pronunciation: /lɪŋ/

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs
  2. noun common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere
  3. noun elongated marine food fish of Greenland and northern Europe; often salted and dried

Etymology

From Middle English lenge, of Germanic origin. Cognate with Old Norse langa. Probably related to long.

In classic literature

Synonyms

ling ko, Trapa bicornis

Semantic network

Broader (hypernyms)
water chestnut

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