英语词汇“eelpout”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

eel /ēl/

noun

Any fish of the Anguillidae, Muraenidae or other family of Apodes, fishes with long smooth cylindrical or ribbon-shaped bodies, without pelvic fins and almost or totally scaleless

Extended to various other fishes of similar form, such as the sand eel (or launce), and the electric eel

Extended also to some eel-like threadworms (also eelˈworm)

A devious or evasive person, a slippery character

ORIGIN: OE ǣl; Ger Aal, and Du aal

eelˈ-like adjective

eelˈy adjective

eelˈ-basket noun

A basket for catching eels

eelˈfare noun

(OE faran to travel) a migratory passage of young eels

A brood of young eels

A young eel

eelˈgrass or eelˈwrack noun

Grasswrack (genus Zostera), a grasslike flowering plant growing in seawater

eelˈpout /-powt/ noun

(OE ǣlepūte) the burbot
The viviparous blenny

eelˈ-set noun

A net placed across a river to catch eels

eelˈ-spear noun

An instrument with broad prongs for catching eels

eelˈworm noun

A nematode

salt eel (obsolete)

A rope's end

pout² /powt/

noun

A fish of the cod family, the bib (also whiting pout)

ORIGIN: OE (ǣle-)pūte (eel)pout, perh connected with pout¹ with reference to the fish's inflatable membrane on the head

poutˈing noun

The whiting pout

eelˈpout see under eel

horn pout or horned pout

An American catfish (genus Amiurus)

eel /ēl/

pout2 /powt/

pout² /powt/