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Eel
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- 1 A township in Cass County, Indiana, United States, probably named after the Eel River.
- 1 Any freshwater fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated and resemble snakes.
"Off the United States, the National Marine Fisheries Service is helping industry explore fisheries for deep shrimp, rattails, chimeras, orange roughy, smoothheads, slackjaw eels, blue hake, skates and dogfish, which the National Fisheries Institute, an industry group, in an effort to improve their marketability, has renamed cape shark."
- 2 voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins wordnet
- 3 A European eel (Anguilla anguilla).
- 4 the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled wordnet
- 5 Various other animals that resemble true eels, chiefly in shape:; Other ray-finned fishes:; An electric eel (any knifefish of the genus Electrophorus)
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- 6 Various other animals that resemble true eels, chiefly in shape:; Other ray-finned fishes:; In the order Synbranchiformes:; A swamp eel (any fish in the family Synbranchidae).
- 7 Various other animals that resemble true eels, chiefly in shape:; Other ray-finned fishes:; In the order Synbranchiformes:; An earthworm eel, also called the spineless eel (any fish in the family Chaudhuriidae).
- 8 Various other animals that resemble true eels, chiefly in shape:; Other ray-finned fishes:; In the order Synbranchiformes:; A spiny eel (any fish in the family Mastacembelidae).
- 9 Various other animals that resemble true eels, chiefly in shape:; Other ray-finned fishes:; A deep-sea spiny eel (any fish in the family Notacanthidae).
- 10 Various other animals that resemble true eels, chiefly in shape:; Certain amphibians:; A conger eel, also called the Congo eel, amphiuma, and Congo snake (any salamander of the genus Amphiuma).
- 11 Various other animals that resemble true eels, chiefly in shape:; Certain amphibians:; A two-legged eel, also called the mud eel and lesser siren, Siren intermedia.
- 12 Various other animals that resemble true eels, chiefly in shape:; Certain amphibians:; A leopard eel, also called the leopard siren and reticulated siren, Siren reticulata.
- 13 Various other animals that resemble true eels, chiefly in shape:; Certain amphibians:; A rubber eel, Typhlonectes natans.
- 14 Various other animals that resemble true eels, chiefly in shape:; A vinegar eel, a roundworm of species Turbatrix aceti.
- 15 Someone or something that is sneaky and/or hard to catch.
"That Dennis is a right eel, he always seems to slip away from the scene at the right time."
- 1 To fish for eels. intransitive
- 2 To move with a sinuous motion like that of an eel. intransitive
Etymology
From Middle English el (“eel”), from Old English ǣl (“eel”), from Proto-West Germanic *āl (“eel”), from Proto-Germanic *ēlaz (“eel”), which is of unknown origin. Cognates Cognate with West Frisian iel (“eel”), Dutch aal (“eel”), German Low German Aal, Ool (“eel”), German Aal (“eel”), Danish, Norn, Norwegian, and Swedish ål (“eel”), Faroese állur, álur (“eel”), Icelandic áll (“eel”).
From Middle English el (“eel”), from Old English ǣl (“eel”), from Proto-West Germanic *āl (“eel”), from Proto-Germanic *ēlaz (“eel”), which is of unknown origin. Cognates Cognate with West Frisian iel (“eel”), Dutch aal (“eel”), German Low German Aal, Ool (“eel”), German Aal (“eel”), Danish, Norn, Norwegian, and Swedish ål (“eel”), Faroese állur, álur (“eel”), Icelandic áll (“eel”).
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