anguiliforme

Definitions of anguiliforme
  1. noun
    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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    angula
    young eel
    anguila
    eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn; found in Europe and America; marketed both fresh and smoked
    morena
    family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked
    conger, congrio
    large dark-colored scaleless marine eel found in temperate and tropical coastal waters; some used for food
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    malacopterigio
    any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii
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