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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
- smoked eel eel cured by smoking
- electric eel eel-shaped freshwater fish of South America having electric organs in its body
- electrophorus electric eel-shaped freshwater fish of South America having electric organs in its body
- agnathan eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms
- jawless fish eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms
- jawless vertebrate eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms
- genus vallisneria eelgrass; eel grass