caltrop vs ling
ling vs caltropcaltrop and ling both are nouns.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| caltrop | Yes | No | No | No |
| ling | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
ling is a hyponym of
caltrop; that is, ling is a
word with a more specific, narrower meaning than
caltrop:
- caltrop: a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits
- ling: water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs
Other hyponyms of caltrop include
Jesuits' nut, Trapa natans, water caltrop, ling ko, Trapa bicornis.
| caltrop (noun) | ling (noun) |
|---|---|
| tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed | elongated marine food fish of Greenland and northern Europe; often salted and dried |
| Mediterranean annual or biennial herb having pinkish to purple flowers surrounded by spine-tipped scales; naturalized in America | American hakes |
| a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits | elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth |
| common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere | |
| water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs |
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