eel
nounHow to pronounce eel:
Definition of eel:
- eel (noun):
- voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins.
- any of numerous voracious elongate snakelike bony fishes (order anguilliformes) that have a smooth slimy skin, lack pelvic fins, and have the median fins confluent around the tail compare american eel
Synonyms for eel:
anguilla sucklandii
anguilliformes
common eel
conger
conger eel
elver
malacopterygian
moray
moray eel
order anguilliformes
order apodes
soft-finned fish
tuna
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