ling
ling
- n water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs
- n common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere
- n elongated marine food fish of Greenland and northern Europe; often salted and dried
- n American hakes
- n elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth
- Mei-ling's father, famed "Old Charlie" Soong, had made his fortune as a pioneer in printing and selling Bibles to Chinese as fast as the missionaries created a demand.
- May-ling married the young Kuomintang (KMT) general Chiang Kai-shek in 1926, a year after he'd taken control of the party and the year before the onset of a bloody civil conflict .
- In the 4 months that American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling have been held captive in North Korea, there has been one constant amid the rumors swirling around the case: the .