common eel

Thesaurus

Noun

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common eel - eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn; found in Europe and America; marketed both fresh and smokedfreshwater eeleel - voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral finsgenus Anguilla, Anguilla - type genus of the Anguillidae: eelseel - the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled