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| NOUN | 1 | eel | The fatty flesh of eel |
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| 2 | eel | Voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins |
| Sounds | iy'l |
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| Rhymes | abele, anneal, appeal, and 61 more rhymes in iyl... |
| Meaning | The fatty flesh of eel. An elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America. Large eels are usually smoked or pickled. |
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| Part of | common eel, freshwater eel |
| Broader | fish |
| Narrower | elver |
| Meaning | Voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins. |
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| Member of | Anguilliformes, order Anguilliformes, order Apodes |
| Broader | soft-finned fish, malacopterygian |
| Narrower | elver; common eel, freshwater eel; tuna, Anguilla sucklandii; moray, moray eel; conger, conger eel |
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