Eel

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  • noun. Any of various long, snakelike, scaleless marine or freshwater fishes of the order Anguilliformes that lack pelvic fins and characteristically migrate from fresh water to salt water to spawn.
  • noun. Any of several similar fishes, such as the lamprey and electric eel.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Leptocephalus wilsoni of Australia.
  • noun. Congromuræna habenata of New Zealand.
  • noun. An elongated apodal fish of the family Anguillidæ and genus Anguilla, of which there are several species.
  • noun. Any fish of the order Apodes or Symbranchii, of which there are many families and several hundred species.
  • noun. Some fish resembling or likened to an eel; an anguilliform fish.
  • noun. Some small nematoid or threadworm, as of the family Anguillulidæ, found in vinegar, sour paste, etc. See vinegar-eel, and cut under Nematoidea.
  • noun. Hence— A rope's end; a flogging.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An elongated fish of many genera and species. The common eels of Europe and America belong to the genus Anguilla. The electrical eel is a species of Gymnotus. The so called vinegar eel is a minute nematode worm. See conger eel, electric eel, and gymnotus.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any fish of the order Anguilliformes which are elongated and resemble snakes. There are freshwater and marine species.
  • noun. The European eel, Anguilla anguilla.
  • verb. To fish for eels
  • verb. To move with a sinuous motion like that of an eel
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins
  • noun. the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled
  • Word Usage
    "The New Zealand longfin eel, is one of the most important creatures in the faith of the New Zealand Maori, and one of the longest-lived and largest freshwater fishes in the world (they can grown seven feet long, and have been aged at 104 years)."
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