eels

Noun

eel (plural eels)

1. Any freshwater fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated and resemble snakes.
   • Off the United States, the National Marine Fisheries Service is helping industry explore fisheries for deep shrimp, rattails, chimeras, orange roughy, smoothheads, slackjaw eels, blue hake, skates and dogfish, which the National Fisheries Institute, an industry group, in an effort to improve their...1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times
2. A European eel (Anguilla anguilla).
3. An electric eel (any knifefish of the genus Electrophorus)
4. A swamp eel (any fish in the family Synbranchidae).
5. An earthworm eel, also called the spineless eel (any fish in the family Chaudhuriidae).
6. A spiny eel (any fish in the family Mastacembelidae).

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