anguille

Definitions of anguille
  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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    types:
    anguille de mer
    eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn; found in Europe and America; marketed both fresh and smoked
    murène
    family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked
    type of:
    malacoptérygien
    any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii
  2. noun
    eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn; found in Europe and America; marketed both fresh and smoked
    synonyms: anguille de mer
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