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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 meronym | common 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 meronym | Anguilliformes, order Anguilliformes, order Apodes | ||
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