freshwater eel

Other forms: freshwater eels

Definitions of freshwater eel
  1. 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: common eel
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    type of:
    eel
    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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