Meaning & use

Eel

noun·Everyday

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A long, snake-like fish with a smooth, slippery body and no pelvic fins.

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Fishermen along the river have caught eels here for generations.

The moray eel hid among the coral, waiting for prey to pass by.

A note on using this word

The European eel undertakes one of the animal kingdom's most remarkable migrations, traveling thousands of miles to spawn in the Sargasso Sea.

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