heath vs ling

heath and ling both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
heath	Yes	No	No	No
ling	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, ling is a hyponym of heath; that is, ling is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than heath:

heath: a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers
ling: common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere

Other hyponyms of heath include erica, true heath, Bruckenthalia spiculifolia, spike heath, broom, Calluna vulgaris, heather, Scots heather, Cassiope mertensiana, white heather, Connemara heath, Daboecia cantabrica, St. Dabeoc's heath, Bryanthus taxifolius, mountain heath, Phyllodoce caerulea, Brewer's mountain heather, Phyllodoce breweri, purple heather.

heath (noun)	ling (noun)
a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation	elongated marine food fish of Greenland and northern Europe; often salted and dried
a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers	American hakes
	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

Difference between heath and ling

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