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Ling (medicine)


ling


1. <zoology> A large, marine, gadoid fish (Molva vulgaris) of Northern Europe and Greenland. It is valued as a Food fish and is largely salted and dried. Called also drizzle.

2. The burbot of Lake Ontario.

3. An American hake of the genus Phycis.

4. A New Zealand Food fish of the genus Genypterus. The name is also locally applied to Other fishes, as the cultus cod, the mutton fish, and the cobia.

5. <botany> Heather (Calluna vulgaris). Ling honey, a sort of wild honey, made from the flowers of the heather.

Origin: OE. Lenge; akin to D. Leng, G. Lange, Dan. Lange, Sw. Lnga, Icel. Langa. So named from its being long. See Long.

Source: Websters Dictionary


tillandsia (iou)



tillandsia noun. M18.
[mod. Latin (see below), from Elias Tillands (1640-93), Swedish botanist + -IA1.]
Any of various bromeliads of the genus Tillandsia of tropical and subtropical America, which includes epiphytes such as Spanish moss, Tillandsia usneoides.