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say it: ling
ling is a noun meaning "water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs". It carries 5 recorded senses.
water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs
common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere
elongated marine food fish of Greenland and northern Europe; often salted and dried
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ling come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.