ling

English Thesaurus

1. elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	cod, codfish,
definition	:	major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters (noun.animal)

2. American hakes (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	hake,
definition	:	any of several marine food fishes related to cod (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus urophycis, urophycis,
definition	:	hakes (noun.animal)

3. elongated marine food fish of Greenland and northern Europe; often salted and dried (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	gadoid, gadoid fish,
definition	:	a soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus molva, molva,
definition	:	ling (noun.animal)

4. common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	heath,
definition	:	a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	calluna, genus calluna,
definition	:	one species (noun.plant)

5. water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	caltrop, water chestnut, water chestnut plant,
definition	:	a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits (noun.plant)