anguilla

Definitions of anguilla
  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:
    tonno
    New Zealand eel
    murena
    family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked
    grongo
    large dark-colored scaleless marine eel found in temperate and tropical coastal waters; some used for food
  2. noun
    the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled
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