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eel

DEFINITIONS OF: eel

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n voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins

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elver
young eel
common eel, freshwater eel
eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn; found in Europe and America; marketed both fresh and smoked
Anguilla sucklandii, tuna
New Zealand eel
moray, moray eel
family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked
conger, conger eel
large dark-colored scaleless marine eel found in temperate and tropical coastal waters; some used for food
Type of:
malacopterygian, soft-finned fish
any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii

n the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled

Types:
smoked eel
eel cured by smoking
elver
young eel; may be sauteed or batter-fried
Type of:
fish
the flesh of fish used as food
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