Defenition of the word eel

• Defenition of the word eel

  • A snaky edible fish, which lives in freshwater and in the sea.
  • voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins
  • flesh of eel; elongate fatty-fleshed fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels usually smoked or pickled
  • the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled

Meronymys for the word eel

• • Anguilliformes
  • common eel
  • freshwater eel
  • order Anguilliformes
  • order Apodes

Hyponyms for the word eel

• • Anguilla sucklandii
  • common eel
  • conger
  • conger eel
  • elver
  • freshwater eel
  • moray
  • moray eel
  • smoked eel
  • tuna

Hypernyms for the word eel

• • fish
  • malacopterygian
  • soft-finned fish

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