| NOUN | animal | common eel, freshwater eel | eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn |
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| Meaning | eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn; found in Europe and America; marketed both fresh and smoked. | |
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| Synonym | freshwater eel | |
| Member of | Anguilla, genus Anguilla | type genus of the Anguillidae |
| Parts | eel | The fatty flesh of eel |
| Broader | eel | voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins |
| Spanish | anguila | |
| Catalan | anguila | |
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