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n. 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.

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

n. Any fish of the order Anguilliformes which are elongated and resemble snakes. There are freshwater and marine species.

n. The European eel, Anguilla anguilla.

v. To fish for eels

v. To move with a sinuous motion like that of an eel

n. An elongated fish of many genera and species. The common eels of Europe and America belong to the genus Anguilla. The electrical eel is a species of Gymnotus. The so called vinegar eel is a minute nematode worm. See conger eel, electric eel, and gymnotus.

n. An elongated apodal fish of the family Anguillidæ and genus Anguilla, of which there are several species.

n. Any fish of the order Apodes or Symbranchii, of which there are many families and several hundred species.

n. Some fish resembling or likened to an eel; an anguilliform fish.

n. Some small nematoid or threadworm, as of the family Anguillulidæ, found in vinegar, sour paste, etc. See vinegar-eel, and cut under Nematoidea.

n. Hence— A rope's end; a flogging.

n. Leptocephalus wilsoni of Australia.

n. Congromuræna habenata of New Zealand.

n. voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins

n. the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled

"The New Zealand longfin eel, is one of the most important creatures in the faith of the New Zealand Maori, and one of the longest-lived and largest freshwater fishes in the world (they can grown seven feet long, and have been aged at 104 years)."

electric eel    black eel    long-necked eel    fresh-water eel    silver eel    salt eel    symbranchoid eel    blind eel    pug-nosed eel    commom eel   

conger eel    electric eel    gymnotus   

vinegar eel   

eelfare    conger eel    eel-pout    eelpout    electric eel   

Biel    Brasil    Camille    Cecile    Cele    Ciel    Emil    Emile    Keil    Kiel   

turtle    sturgeon    shrimp    mullet    tortoise    crab    squid    mussel    lobster    minnow