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 -ling suff.  A noun suffix, commonly having a diminutive or a depreciatory force; as in duckling, gosling, hireling, fosterling, firstling, underling.

 -ling. An adverbial suffix; as, darkling, flatling.
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 ling
      n 1: water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4
           prongs [syn: ling ko, Trapa bicornis]
      2: common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low
         evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere [syn: heather,
          Scots heather, broom, Calluna vulgaris]
      3: elongated marine food fish of Greenland and northern Europe;
         often salted and dried [syn: Molva molva]
      4: American hakes
      5: elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and
         North America having barbels around its mouth [syn: burbot,
          eelpout, cusk, Lota lota]