eel

eel  (l)

n. pl. eel or eels

1. Any of various long, snakelike, scaleless marine or freshwater fishes of the order Anguilliformes or Apodes that lack pelvic fins and characteristically migrate from fresh water to salt water to spawn.

2. Any of several similar fishes, such as the lamprey and electric eel.

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[Middle English ele, from Old English l.]

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eel

Noun

a slimy snakelike fish [Old English ǣl]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	eel - the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled common eel, freshwater 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 fish - the flesh of fish used as food; "in Japan most fish is eaten raw"; "after the scare about foot-and-mouth disease a lot of people started eating fish instead of meat"; "they have a chef who specializes in fish" smoked eel - eel cured by smoking elver - young eel; may be sauteed or batter-fried
	2.	eel - voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins malacopterygian, soft-finned fish - any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii Anguilliformes, order Anguilliformes, order Apodes - elongate fishes with pelvic fins and girdle absent or reduced elver - young eel common eel, freshwater 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 Anguilla sucklandii, tuna - New Zealand eel moray, moray eel - family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked conger, conger eel - large dark-colored scaleless marine eel found in temperate and tropical coastal waters; some used for food

Translations

eel [iːl] n → anguila

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eel [iːl] n → anguille f

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eel [iːl] n → Aal m

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eel [iːl] n → anguilla

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eel

n eel [iːl]

a kind of fish with a long smooth cylindrical or ribbon-shaped body. paling أنْقَليس، حَنْكَليس змиорка úhoř ål der Aal χέλι anguila angerjas مار ماهی ankerias anguille צְלוֹפֳח सर्पमीन jegulja angolna belut áll anguilla うなぎ 뱀장어 ungurys zutis belut paling ål węgorz enguia ţipar угорь úhor jegulja jegulja ål ปลาไหล yılan balığı 鰻鲡 вугор; в'юн لمبی فیتے جیسے جسم والی کوئی مچھلی con lươn 鳗鲡