eel
1. the fatty flesh of eel;
an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America;
large eels are usually smoked or pickled
• Hypernyms:
fish
• Hyponyms:
smoked eel, elver
• Part Holonyms:
common eel, freshwater eel
2. voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins
• Hypernyms:
soft-finned fish, malacopterygian
• Hyponyms:
elver, common eel, freshwater eel, tuna, Anguilla sucklandii,
moray, moray eel, conger, conger eel
• Member Holonyms:
Anguilliformes, order Anguilliformes, order Apodes
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