common eel

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common eel - eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn; found in Europe and America; marketed both fresh and smoked

freshwater eel

eel - voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins

genus Anguilla, Anguilla - type genus of the Anguillidae: eels

eel - 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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