eel
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1. voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins (noun.animal)
| hyponym | : | elver, |
| definition | : | young eel (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | common eel, freshwater eel, |
| definition | : | eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn; found in Europe and America; marketed both fresh and smoked (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | moray, moray eel, |
| definition | : | family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | conger, conger eel, |
| definition | : | large dark-colored scaleless marine eel found in temperate and tropical coastal waters; some used for food (noun.animal) |
2. the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled (noun.food)
| hypernym | : | fish, |
| definition | : | the flesh of fish used as food (noun.food) |
| hyponym | : | smoked eel, |
| definition | : | eel cured by smoking (noun.food) |
| hyponym | : | elver, |
| definition | : | young eel; may be sauteed or batter-fried (noun.food) |
| part meronym | : | common eel, freshwater eel, |
| definition | : | eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn; found in Europe and America; marketed both fresh and smoked (noun.animal) |
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