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Eel

Eel Meaning & Definition
Eel Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Eel?

[n] voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins
[n] 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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See Also | Anguilla sucklandii | Anguilliformes | common eel | common eel | conger | conger eel | elver | elver | fish | freshwater eel | freshwater eel | malacopterygian | moray | moray eel | order Anguilliformes | order Apodes | soft-finned fish | tuna

Eel In Webster's Dictionary

\Eel\, n. [AS. ?l; akin to D., G., & Dan. aal, Icel. [=a]ll, Sw. [*a]l.] (Zo["o]l.) An elongated fish of many genera and species. The common eels of Europe and America belong to the genus {Anguilla}. The electrical eel is a species of {Gymnotus}. The so called {vinegar eel} is a minute nematode worm. See {Conger eel}, {Electric eel}, and {Gymnotus}.

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