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snake-eel

snake-eel noun: any member of the family Ophichthidae of eels (order Anguilliformes).

snake-eel: any member of the family Ophichthidae of eels (order Anguilliformes)
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Noun

snake-eel (plural snake-eels)

  1. Any member of the family Ophichthidae of eels (order Anguilliformes).
    Synonyms:
    ophichthid

snake-eel meaning in Tamil and Arabic

snake-eel in Tamil

வால்செதிளற்ற விலாங்குவகை

snake-eel in Arabic

eel of the family Ophichthidae
أَنْقَلِيس ثُعْبَانِيّ ʔanqalīs ṯuʕbāniyy

Synonyms of snake-eel

Forms of snake-eel

pluralsnake-eels
alternative formsnake eel

Words formed from snake-eel

Questions about snake-eel

What does snake-eel mean?
Snake-eel means any member of the family Ophichthidae of eels (order Anguilliformes).
What is snake-eel in Tamil?
Snake-eel in Tamil is வால்செதிளற்ற விலாங்குவகை. See Snake-eel meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is snake-eel?
Snake-eel is a noun.
What is the plural of snake-eel?
The plural of snake-eel is snake-eels.

Words near snake-eel in the dictionary

  1. snake-bite
  2. snake-bites
  3. snake-cased
  4. snake-eating cobra
  5. snake-eating cobras
  6. snake-eel
  7. snake-eels
  8. snake-fear
  9. snake-fright
  10. snake-grass
  11. snake-grasses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: snake-eel (page history and authors); snake-eel (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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