eel : Idioms & Phrases

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A stick of eels

  • twenty-five eels. Prov. Eng.
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blind eel

  • noun aquatic eel-shaped salamander having two pairs of very small feet; of still muddy waters in the southern United States
    amphiuma; blind eel; congo snake.
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common eel

  • noun eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn; found in Europe and America; marketed both fresh and smoked
    common eel.
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conger eel

  • noun large dark-colored scaleless marine eel found in temperate and tropical coastal waters; some used for food
    conger.
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congo eel

  • noun aquatic eel-shaped salamander having two pairs of very small feet; of still muddy waters in the southern United States
    amphiuma; blind eel; congo snake.
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cusk-eel

  • noun elongate compressed somewhat eel-shaped fishes
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eel-mother

Eel"-moth`er noun
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  1. (Zoöl.) The eelpout.
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eel-shaped

  • adjective satellite shaped in the form of an eel
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electric eel

  • noun eel-shaped freshwater fish of South America having electric organs in its body
    Electrophorus electric.
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Electric, ∨ Electrical, eel

  • (Zoöl.), a South American eel-like fresh-water fish of the genus Gymnotus (G. electricus), from two to five feet in length, capable of giving a violent electric shock. See Gymnotus.
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freshwater eel

  • noun eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn; found in Europe and America; marketed both fresh and smoked
    common eel.
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lamper eel

  • noun primitive eellike freshwater or anadromous cyclostome having round sucking mouth with a rasping tongue
    lamprey; lamper eel.
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Lam"per eel`
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  1. (Zoöl.) See Lamprey.
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lamprey eel

  • noun primitive eellike freshwater or anadromous cyclostome having round sucking mouth with a rasping tongue
    lamprey; lamper eel.
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moray eel

  • noun family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked
    moray.
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Mud eel

  • (Zoöl.), a long, slender, aquatic amphibian (Siren lacertina), found in the Southern United States. It has persistent external gills and only the anterior pair of legs. See Siren.
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Paste eel

  • (Zoöl.), the vinegar eel. See under Vinegar.
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Pug-nose eel

  • (Zoöl.), a deep-water marine eel (Simenchelys parasiticus) which sometimes burrows into the flesh of the halibut.
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Rock eel

  • . (Zoöl.) See Gunnel.
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Sand eel

  • noun very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches
    launce; sand lance; sand launce.
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  • . (Zoöl.) (a) A lant, or launce . (b) A slender Pacific Ocean fish of the genus Gonorhynchus, having barbels about the mouth.
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sea eel

Sea" eel`
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  1. (Zoöl.) The conger eel.
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Silver eel

  • . (Zoöl.) (a) The cutlass fish. (b) A pale variety of the common eel.
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Slime eel

  • . (Zoöl.) See 1st Hag, 4.
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slime eels

  • noun eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies
    hagfish; hag.
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smoked eel

  • noun eel cured by smoking
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Vinegar eel

  • noun minute eelworm that feeds on organisms that cause fermentation in e.g. vinegar
    vinegar worm; Turbatrix aceti; Anguillula aceti.
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  • (Zoöl.), a minute nematode worm (Leptodera oxophila, or Anguillula acetiglutinis), commonly found in great numbers in vinegar, sour paste, and other fermenting vegetable substances; called also vinegar worm.
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wheat eel

  • noun small roundworm parasitic on wheat
    Tylenchus tritici; wheatworm; wheat eelworm.
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Wolf eel

  • (Zoöl.), a wolf fish.
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