eel - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

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

Synonyms

• eel

More generic

• malacopterygian
• soft-finned fish

More specific

• Anguilla sucklandii
• common eel
• conger
• conger eel
• elver
• freshwater eel
• moray
• moray eel
• tuna

Related

• Anguilliformes
• order Anguilliformes
• order Apodes

Noun

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

Synonyms

• eel

More generic

• fish

More specific

• elver
• smoked eel

Related

• common eel
• freshwater eel

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