| eel | | |
| n. (food) | 1. eel | the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled. |
| ~ common eel, freshwater eel | eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn; found in Europe and America; marketed both fresh and smoked. |
| ~ fish | the flesh of fish used as food.; "in Japan most fish is eaten raw"; "after the scare about foot-and-mouth disease a lot of people started eating fish instead of meat"; "they have a chef who specializes in fish" |
| ~ smoked eel | eel cured by smoking. |
| ~ elver | young eel; may be sauteed or batter-fried. |
| n. (animal) | 2. eel | voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins. |
| ~ malacopterygian, soft-finned fish | any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii. |
| ~ anguilliformes, order anguilliformes, order apodes | elongate fishes with pelvic fins and girdle absent or reduced. |
| ~ elver | young eel. |
| ~ common eel, freshwater eel | eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn; found in Europe and America; marketed both fresh and smoked. |
| ~ anguilla sucklandii, tuna | New Zealand eel. |
| ~ moray, moray eel | family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked. |
| ~ conger, conger eel | large dark-colored scaleless marine eel found in temperate and tropical coastal waters; some used for food. |
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