English > eel: 2 senses > noun 2, animal| Meaning | voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins. |
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| Member of | Anguilliformes, order Anguilliformes, order Apodes | elongate fishes with pelvic ... / pelvic fins and girdle absent or reduced |
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| Narrower | common eel, freshwater eel | eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn |
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| conger, conger eel | large dark-colored scaleless marine eel found in temperate and tropical coastal waters |
| elver | young eel |
| moray, moray eel | family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters |
| tuna, Anguilla sucklandii | New Zealand eel |
| Broader | soft-finned fish, malacopterygian | Any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii |
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| Spanish | anguila, anguiliforme |
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| Catalan | anguila, anguiliforme |
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