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COMMON EEL

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn; found in Europe and America; marketed both fresh and smoked

Synonyms:

common eel; freshwater eel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("common eel" is a kind of...):

eel (voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins)

Meronyms (parts of "common eel"):

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

Holonyms ("common eel" is a member of...):

Anguilla; genus Anguilla (type genus of the Anguillidae: eels)

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