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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


Broader (hypernym)fish


Narrower (hyponym)elver, smoked eel


Part meronymcommon eel, freshwater eel

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


Broader (hypernym)malacopterygian, soft-finned fish


Narrower (hyponym)Anguilla sucklandii, common eel, conger, conger eel, elver, freshwater eel, moray, moray eel, tuna


Member meronymAnguilliformes, order Anguilliformes, order Apodes









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