eel
/iːl/ noun B1- Any freshwater fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated and resemble snakes.
- A European eel (Anguilla anguilla).
- An electric eel (any knifefish of the genus Electrophorus)
- A swamp eel (any fish in the family Synbranchidae).
- An earthworm eel, also called the spineless eel (any fish in the family Chaudhuriidae).
- A spiny eel (any fish in the family Mastacembelidae).
- A deep-sea spiny eel (any fish in the family Notacanthidae).
- A conger eel, also called the Congo eel, amphiuma, and Congo snake (any salamander of the genus Amphiuma).
Plural eels
From the library
He dodged round the table as quick as an eel, and a moment later he’d got his gun from under his coat.
“You are old,” said the youth, “one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as ever; Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose— What made you so awfully clever?”
“Well, there was Mystery,” the Mock Turtle replied, counting off the subjects on his flappers, “—Mystery, ancient and modern, with Seaography: then Drawling—the Drawling-master was an old conger-eel, that used to come once a week: _he_ taught us Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils.”
“Soles and eels, of course,” the Gryphon replied rather impatiently: “any shrimp could have told you that.”
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