eel
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- noun
- /il/
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anguila
- Sayer glances back into the fish tank at the eel behind the rock, its home.
- catch eels
- eel populations
- decline in eels
Jelly deals is it's a cut up eel and it comes with gelatin.
- Jelly deals is it's a cut up eel and it comes with gelatin.
- Massive eels slid out of our grip.
- I saw one throw up a whole eel.
- I'd eaten eel that was pretty rotten.
- Now the water is you've got Cayman, you've got electric eels, you've got Stingray, you've got piranha.
- Vedius Polio was a guy who had lampreys or Moray eels or something like that in a big pool.
- And there was this one in, I want to say Australia, where there were these like eels.
Examples
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In that period, fishermen reported that catches of eels in the bay were unusually high.
Academic text (1990) -
After fishing all day, they were excited to catch a large eel for dinner.
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Then the eel ate another eel right in front of us.
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Remember that when you come to my baby eel adoption farm.
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They're made from eel skin.
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I'd eaten eel that was pretty rotten.
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Clean, clean, flowing along the sand, so transparent you can see eels swimming on the bottom.
Academic text (2011) -
"You may not know this about eels," Mameha went on, "but they're quite territorial."
Fiction book (1997) -
Jared took another bite of eel and nodded at Jamie, talking around the mouthful of food.
Fiction book (1992) -
All I know is, it feels like there's a freshwater eel lodged in my esophagus.
Synonyms
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3.4
A large freshwater fish from South America that makes strong electric shocks
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3.6
A long fish that lives in rivers and returns to the sea to lay eggs
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7.3
A large dark sea eel often eaten as food
A fish that lives in rivers as an adult and swims to the sea to breed
Compounds
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5.8
A type of fish preserved and flavored by cooking it near burning wood, eaten as a special food
- US
A thin water animal that looks like an eel and has two pairs of legs that lives in muddy water
- Archaic
A jawless eel-like fish that sticks to other fish using a round sucking mouth
A long fish without jaws with a round mouth that sucks blood from fish in rivers or seas
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Eel comes from an old English word æl that also meant 'eel' and is like the German word Aal. The name fits because an eel is a long, snake-like fish that slips away easily, so the old word stayed with the modern meaning.