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Meaning of EEL

Pronunciation:  eel

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins
  2. [n]  the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled
 
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 See Also: Anguilla sucklandii, Anguilliformes, common eel, common eel, conger, conger eel, elver, elver, fish, freshwater eel, freshwater eel, malacopterygian, moray, moray eel, order Anguilliformes, order Apodes, soft-finned fish, tuna

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Eel\, n. [AS. ?l; akin to D., G., & Dan. aal, Icel. [=a]ll,
Sw. [*a]l.] (Zo["o]l.)
An elongated fish of many genera and species. The common eels
of Europe and America belong to the genus {Anguilla}. The
electrical eel is a species of {Gymnotus}. The so called
{vinegar eel} is a minute nematode worm. See {Conger eel},
{Electric eel}, and {Gymnotus}.
 
Dream Dictionary
 
 Definition: Seeing an eel in your dream indicates that you have issues with commitment. It also means that you have problems holding on to things.
 

 

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