English noun: eel |
1. | eel (food) 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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| Broader (hypernym) | fish |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | elver, smoked eel |
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| Part meronym | common eel, freshwater eel |
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2. | eel (animal) voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins |
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| Broader (hypernym) | malacopterygian, soft-finned fish |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | Anguilla sucklandii, common eel, conger, conger eel, elver, freshwater eel, moray, moray eel, tuna |
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| Member meronym | Anguilliformes, order Anguilliformes, order Apodes |
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