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• A defaultist believes that the default interpretation of the phrase "some eels are fish" is the pragmatic interpretation "some, but not all, eels are fish".From the entry defaultist
• “We are the people that pull eel grass between our teeth to eat the herring roe.”2021 March 24, “Herring integral to B.C.’s ecological health and preservation of Nuu-chah-nulth traditions”, in Toronto Star. From the entry ḥiškʷiiʔatḥ
• Ichthyohaemotoxin is the toxin found in eel serum; it is also known as fish serum toxin.2017, Laith A. Jawad, Dangerous Fishes of the Eastern and Southern Arabian Peninsula, →ISBN. From the entry ichthyohaemotoxin
• In this study, wild glass eel, leptocephali, preleptocephali, and embryos were collected to conduct RNA-seq.2015 September 26, “De Novo Assembly of the Whole Transcriptome of the Wild Embryo, Preleptocephalus, Leptocephalus, and Glass Eel of…. From the entry preleptocephali
• The two pieces were hinged together with leather or eel skin.2011, Robert E. Gough, Cheryl Moore-Gough, The Complete Guide to Saving Seeds, Storey Publishing, page 46. From the entry swipple
• Places where there were many eels tended to be where bunyips lived, as this was their food.2007, Janet Parker, Julie Stanton, editors, Mythology: Myths, Legends and Fantasies, page 387. From the entry bunyip
• “The first time a woman's cave is explored by a man's eel.1997, Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha, Vintage, published 1998, page 232. From the entry mizuage
• Poisonings with ichthyohemotoxins are very rare because eel blood is perorally toxic only in large quantities.1995, Jiří Davídek, Natural Toxic Compounds of Foods. From the entry ichthyohemotoxin
• The creeks gave us lots of food, too—yellow belly and jew, perch and eel.1994, Rita Huggins & Jackie Huggins, Auntie Rita, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008…. From the entry jew
• The Squink isn't particularly fussy about its diet, but has a great fondness for electric eels.1939, Henry H. Tryon, Fearsome Critters. From the entry squink
• We are ḥiškʷiiʔatḥ and the sound of repeatedly pulling the eel grass between the teeth is ḥišḥiiša,” said chuutsqa L.2021 March 24, “Herring integral to B.C.’s ecological health and preservation of Nuu-chah-nulth traditions”, in Toronto Star. From the entry ḥiškʷiiʔatḥ
• It was regarded as one of the three major eel production regions in Taiwan along side Pingtung’s Donggang and Jhanghua’s Fusing.[2018 November 9, “Eel”, in Hunei District Office, Kaohsiung City, archived from the original on 18 Aug 2019, Specialty. From the entry Fuxing
• Through this plantation ran a creek full of snakeheads and eels, its overflow swelling the swamp around it.2015, Eka Kurniawan, translated by Labodalih Sembiring, Man Tiger, Verso, page 1. From the entry snakehead
• Others—the Maxim gun, the Shrapnel shell and jellied eels—have not.2013 October 5, “The widening gyre”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8856, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC. From the entry invention
• When these glass eels enter freshwater they transform again into elvers – miniature versions of the adult eels.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 69. From the entry elver
• A quilled lionfish was face to face with a saurian moray eel, sizing it up before swimming on.2011, Alesa Corrin, Jonathan: The Griffin Prince, AuthorHouse, published 2011, →ISBN, page 234. From the entry quilled
• It may look nothing like an eel, but the Atlantic tarpon is related to these ancient snakelike fish.2009, John Dawes, Andrew Campbell, David Alderton, Richard Beatty, Exploring the World of Aquatic Life, Infobase Publishing (Chelsea…. From the entry Atlantic tarpon
• Another classic example was babbing for eels; he would come along and say — ‘Goodnight for babbing, make you some babs’.2006 February 1, John Meiklejohn, “Babbing for eels”, in BBC - WW2 People's War. From the entry bab
• Slippery as a 'barrel load of eels' they are.2006, Mike Lloyd, Only the Gods Decide. From the entry greased lightning
• These alternatives are the eels and white snakes, the flying warriors and grannies, the shape shifters and state topplers.1999, Victoria Baldwin Cass, Dangerous Women: Warriors, Grannies, and Geishas of the Ming. From the entry toppler
• Sometimes we trolled or set liggers for pike, we seldom babbed for eels, it was such a slimy job.1948, William Guy, Mostly Memories: Some Digressions, C. J. Cousland, page 24. From the entry bab
• The eel lashed again, and Tarka unbit.1927, Henry Williamson, Tarka the Otter. From the entry unbite
• Another time, she dined in Hampstead, where she was fed a version of stargazy pie with a whole squid where the eel should have been.2023 July 15, Rachel Cooke, “No, Nigella – dinner parties are great. Deliveroo just doesn’t cut it”, in The Observer, →ISSN. From the entry galangal
• Katherine put some Coloxyl down the drain, and we booked the plumber to come around the next day to use the electric eel on Jack.2021, John Martin, Jack and the Jellybean Stalk. From the entry electric eel
• Electric eels, for example, demonstrate that electric circuits are possible in a salty aqueous environment, though it would not be an easy task.2020, Guillermo Gonzalez, Jay W. Richards, The Privileged Planet, page 363. From the entry waterworld
• All can find a stall selling something familiar – and maybe something new to try, whether it’s yams or plantain, dhania or jellied eels.2015 July 10, “Saving our city centres, one local market at a time”, in The Guardian. From the entry dhania
• The Snowflake eel, a kind of moray, is harmless if you leave it alone and refrain from drinking its blood (which is toxic).2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 68. From the entry snowflake eel
• On one occasion, Aboriginal people claimed that a bunyip lured a woman to her death by distracting her with a large catch of eels.2007, Janet Parker, Julie Stanton, editors, Mythology: Myths, Legends and Fantasies, page 387. From the entry bunyip
• If a Maori went fishing or birding between them in the Maungapakeha Valley, he might fail to get either birds or eels.1905. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1868-1961, vol. 38, page 132. From the entry taipo
• Its great eye-ports are open, and Century signals with a hand; the eel extends a proboscis lined with diamond mesh and graphene plates like a ramp.2015 December, A. Merc Rustad, “Tomorrow When We See the Sun”, in John Joseph Adams, editor, Lightspeed, number 67, archived from the…. From the entry klaxon
• This discovery led to a series of expeditions to the Caribbean and South Pacific where several species of biofluorescent eels, representing several anguilliform families, were collected and analyzed.2015 November 12, “Adaptive Evolution of Eel Fluorescent Proteins from Fatty Acid Binding Proteins Produces Bright Fluorescence in the…. From the entry biofluorescent
• In Monmouthshire to be an eel-clotter does not necessarily mean that one's captures are entirely restricted to eels; so John limits his permission to a day!1950, Dorothea Eastwood, River Diary, page 111. From the entry clotter
• The reason was that the Tinui taipo was angry, and would say to the Maungapakeha taipo, “This man has offended me; he shall catch no more eels or birds to-day.”1905. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1868-1961, vol. 38, page 132. From the entry taipo

Meaning of eel

1. noun Any freshwater fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated and resemble snakes.
2. noun A European eel (Anguilla anguilla).
3. noun An electric eel (any knifefish of the genus Electrophorus).

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How do you use eel in a sentence?

Eel is used as a noun and verb. For example: “That Dennis is a right eel, he always seems to slip away from the scene at the right time.”

What is a short sentence with eel?

“The eel lashed again, and Tarka unbit.”

What does eel mean?

Eel means any freshwater fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated and resemble snakes.