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eel
noun
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How 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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