ling

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

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

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

"That will do, Ah Ling." — The Big Four, Agatha Christie
Use the Varians; Ling and Reuben are clever. — The best short stories of 1917, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
His notions, like snails crawling His thoughts, like a flight of star- out of strawberries. lings. — Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais

ling ko, Trapa bicornis

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