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nounthe fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickledtype of:part of:
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nounvoracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral finstype of:
Definition that contains eel
- siren eellike aquatic North American salamander with small forelimbs and no hind limbs; have permanent external gills
- hag eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies
- hagfish eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies
- cryptacanthodes maculatus eellike Atlantic bottom fish with large almost vertical mouth
- slime eels eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies
- jawless fish eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms
- family zoarcidae eelpouts
- electric eel eel-shaped freshwater fish of South America having electric organs in its body
- anguillidae eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to the sea to spawn
- eelblenny eellike fishes found in subarctic coastal waters