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Definition of 'EEL' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) eel
any of numerous elongated, snakelike marine or freshwater fishes of the order Apodes, having no ventral fins.

2.  eel
any of several similar but unrelated fishes, as the lamprey.

Etymology:  (bef. 1000; ME ele, OE ēl, æmacr;l; c. OFris ēl, OS, OHG āl, ON āll)

Definition of 'EEL' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) eel
the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled

2. (noun) eel
voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins
Definition of 'EEL' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) eel
a snake-like water creature
Definition of 'EEL' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) EEL
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
Translation of 'EEL' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a kind of fish with a long smooth cylindrical or ribbon-shaped body.
Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: paling Arabic flag Arabic: أنْقَليس، حَنْكَليس Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: змиорка
Brazilian flag Brazilian: enguia Czech flag Czech: úhoř German flag German: der Aal
Danish flag Danish: ål Greek flag Greek: χέλι Spanish flag Spanish: anguila
Estonian flag Estonian: angerjas Farsi flag Farsi: مار ماهی Finnish flag Finnish: ankerias
French flag French: anguille Hebrew flag Hebrew: צְלוֹפֳח Hindi flag Hindi: सर्पमीन
Croatian flag Croatian: jegulja Hungarian flag Hungarian: angolna Indonesian flag Indonesian: belut
Icelandic flag Icelandic: áll Italian flag Italian: anguilla Japanese flag Japanese: うなぎ
Korean flag Korean: 뱀장어 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: ungurys Latvian flag Latvian: zutis
Malay flag Malay: belut Dutch flag Dutch: paling Norwegian flag Norwegian: ål
Polish flag Polish: węgorz Persian flag Persian: مار ماهی Pashto flag Pashto: مارماهى
Portuguese flag Portuguese: enguia Romanian flag Romanian: ţipar Russian flag Russian: угорь
Slovak flag Slovak: úhor Slovenian flag Slovenian: jegulja Serbian flag Serbian: jegulja
Swedish flag Swedish: ål Thai flag Thai: ปลาไหล Turkish flag Turkish: yılan balığı
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 鰻鲡 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: вугор; в'юн Urdu flag Urdu: لمبی فیتے جیسے جسم والی ک
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: con lươn Chinese flag Chinese: 鳗鲡

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'EEL' - Nearby Entries  

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