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单词 lings
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
-lings, 
  1. var. of -ling 2.
  • Middle English -linges. See -ling2, -s1

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
ling1  (ling),USA pronunciation n., pl. (esp. collectively) ling,  (esp. referring to two or more kinds or species) lings. 
  1. Fishan elongated, marine, gadid food fish, Molva molva, of Greenland and northern Europe.
  2. Fishthe burbot.
  3. Fishany of various other elongated food fishes.
  • 1250–1300; Middle English ling, lenge; cognate with Dutch leng; akin to long1, Old Norse langa

ling2  (ling),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Plant Biologythe heather, Calluna vulgaris.
  • Old Norse lyng
  • Middle English lyng 1325–75

-ling1 ,
  1. a suffix of nouns, often pejorative, denoting one concerned with (hireling;
    underling
    ), or diminutive (princeling;
    duckling
    ).
  • Middle English, Old English; cognate with German -ling, Old Norse -lingr, Gothic -lings; see -le, -ing1

-ling2 ,
  1. an adverbial suffix expressing direction, position, state, etc.:darkling; sideling.
  • adverb, adverbial use of gradational variant lang long1 Middle English, Old English

ling. :
  1. Linguisticslinguistics.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
ling /lɪŋ/ n ( pl ling, lings)
  1. any of several gadoid food fishes of the northern coastal genus Molva, esp M. molva, having an elongated body with long fins
  2. another name for burbot
Etymology: 13th Century: probably from Low German; related to long1
ling /lɪŋ/ n
  1. another name for heather
Etymology: 14th Century: from Old Norse lyng
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