ling

noun

1. (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.”

2. (countable, especially, uncountable)Any of various codlike saltwater fish often used as food by humans, those of the genus Molva, in the family Lotidae.
3. (countable, uncountable)Any of various varieties of heather or broom.
4. (countable, uncountable)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.”

5. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, uncountable)Clipping of linguistics.

name

1. A surname.