Definition of eel in English:
eel
noun iːlil
1A snake-like fish with a slender elongated body and poorly developed fins, proverbial for its slipperiness.
鳗，鳗鲡Order Anguilliformes: many families, in particular Anguillidae, which comprises mainly freshwater eels that breed in the sea, including the common Anguilla anguilla of Europe and A. rostrata of America
- Many species feed on elongated fish, such as eels, which they paralyze with their venom.
- There are also rudd, bream, eels, gudgeon, crucian carp, tench, minnows, perch, sticklebacks, the odd trout, pike and barbel present.
- Most of the intriguing species were examined only in death; dragged in by fishermen's nets, such as the giant spider crab, sharks, scorpion fish and snake eels.
- Conger eels are difficult to confuse with other species of fish.
- Towards the centre of the pier pipefish, mussels galore, conger and common eels, ballan wrasse and cuttlefish lurked.
- Fishing for glass eel could also continue if these eels are used for restocking rivers but not used for aquaculture.
- The American eel and the Japanese eel face similar fates.
- Rough fish comprise the American eel, black sucker, dogfish, gar, lamprey eel, redhorse, sheephead, and white sucker.
- Among these clades are such diverse forms as arawanas, knifefishes, mormyrids, eels, tarpon, and herring.
- Cut the eel, monkfish, haddock or whatever into large chunks, much longer and fatter than you could eat in one go.
- Conger eels, some as long as my father's leg, were hard to deal with but good to eat - we tried to smoke them by sticking them up the chimney and burning pine driftwood underneath.
- Conger eels are extremely common in the UK, quick to colonise wrecks, boulder reefs and rough ground.
- The earliest ichthyosaurs had long, flexible bodies and probably swam by undulating, like living eels.
- Paul contacted the Environment Agency and Yorkshire Water, which are now investigating the cause of the deaths of a number of fish including pike, eels and roach.
- It's basically something which looks like it has the head of a horse and the body of an eel.
- This shark feeds primarily on bony fishes such as parrot, trigger, squirrel, surgeon, damsel and goat fishes as well as eels.
- Any form of fish bait produced either eels or pike.
- Bottlenose dolphins feed on squid, shrimp, eels and a wide variety of fish.
- To this small band of anglers, the eel is a mysterious fish worthy of time and dedication.
- If you hook the eel further back, the body of the eel will fold up along the shank of the hook causing it to spin and you can do without that hassle.
- 1.1 Used in names of unrelated fishes that resemble the true eels, e.g. electric eel, moray eel.用于鳗状鱼的名字中，如 electric eel，moray eel
- Electric eels are not really eels, they are actually ostariophysians, but have a strong physical resemblance to true eels.
- Moray eels, nudibranchs, stingrays, shellfish, sea urchins and sea stars were out and about, while the polyps of black corals and other gorgonians were feeding.
- With its elongated snake-like body, the Leopard Moray eel moves very gently from one end to the other in the tank.
- Moray eels, garfish and trumpetfish were roaming and snapping at a plethora of potential prey.
- Moray eels may look aggressive but that is because they need to gulp water continuously to force it through their gills.
Phrases
(as) slippery as an eel
1Too slippery to catch hold of or hold on to.
the ball was as slippery as an eel- 1.1Elusive or evasive.the man was wanted in a dozen countries but was as slippery as an eel
- 1.1Elusive or evasive.
Derivatives
eel-like
- They are represented now only by the lampreys, eel-like forms that are parasites on fish, and the hagfish, also eel-like but feeding on dead or dying animals.
- The most primitive craniates we know are the living Myxinoidea (hagfishes): eel-like, rather asymmetric creatures with a strong propensity to flood their immediate neighborhood with slime at the slightest provocation.
- A feature that has evolved multiple times in different lineages of fish is the eel-like body plan: elongated body, with reduced fins.
- As a result, we may suspect that some tended toward an eel-like style of swimming or an undulating, almost legless type of locomotion on land.
- Every time it went by I could clearly see its huge gills and two eel-like shapes by the anal fins - they looked like the remora sucker fish that often attach themselves to sharks.
eely
- She gripped the halberd's shaft, tested its weight, then slashed the blade across the beast's eely tongue.
- They are also excellent thawed but that eely texture is lost.
- In short, while the dish smelled good, the eely texture and visibility put me off like few foods have before.
adjective
adjective
Origin
Old English ǣl, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch aal and German Aal.
Rhymes
allele, anele, anneal, appeal, Bastille, Beale, Castile, chenille, cochineal, cockatiel, conceal, congeal, creel, deal, Emile, feel, freewheel, genteel, Guayaquil, heal, heel, he'll, keel, Kiel, kneel, leal, Lille, Lucille, manchineel, meal, misdeal, Neil, O'Neill, ordeal, peal, peel, reel, schlemiel, seal, seel, she'll, spiel, squeal, steal, steel, Steele, teal, underseal, veal, weal, we'll, wheel, zeal
Definition of eel in US English:
eel
nounilēl
1A snake-like fish with a slender elongated body and poorly developed fins, proverbial for its slipperiness.
鳗，鳗鲡Order Anguilliformes: many families, in particular Anguillidae, which comprises mainly freshwater eels that breed in the sea, including the common Anguilla anguilla of Europe and the American eel (A. rostrata)
- Bottlenose dolphins feed on squid, shrimp, eels and a wide variety of fish.
- The earliest ichthyosaurs had long, flexible bodies and probably swam by undulating, like living eels.
- It's basically something which looks like it has the head of a horse and the body of an eel.
- Most of the intriguing species were examined only in death; dragged in by fishermen's nets, such as the giant spider crab, sharks, scorpion fish and snake eels.
- Conger eels are extremely common in the UK, quick to colonise wrecks, boulder reefs and rough ground.
- Many species feed on elongated fish, such as eels, which they paralyze with their venom.
- Conger eels are difficult to confuse with other species of fish.
- This shark feeds primarily on bony fishes such as parrot, trigger, squirrel, surgeon, damsel and goat fishes as well as eels.
- Among these clades are such diverse forms as arawanas, knifefishes, mormyrids, eels, tarpon, and herring.
- To this small band of anglers, the eel is a mysterious fish worthy of time and dedication.
- There are also rudd, bream, eels, gudgeon, crucian carp, tench, minnows, perch, sticklebacks, the odd trout, pike and barbel present.
- Fishing for glass eel could also continue if these eels are used for restocking rivers but not used for aquaculture.
- Any form of fish bait produced either eels or pike.
- The American eel and the Japanese eel face similar fates.
- Cut the eel, monkfish, haddock or whatever into large chunks, much longer and fatter than you could eat in one go.
- Rough fish comprise the American eel, black sucker, dogfish, gar, lamprey eel, redhorse, sheephead, and white sucker.
- Conger eels, some as long as my father's leg, were hard to deal with but good to eat - we tried to smoke them by sticking them up the chimney and burning pine driftwood underneath.
- Paul contacted the Environment Agency and Yorkshire Water, which are now investigating the cause of the deaths of a number of fish including pike, eels and roach.
- Towards the centre of the pier pipefish, mussels galore, conger and common eels, ballan wrasse and cuttlefish lurked.
- If you hook the eel further back, the body of the eel will fold up along the shank of the hook causing it to spin and you can do without that hassle.
- 1.1 Used in names of unrelated fishes that resemble the true eels, e.g. electric eel, moray eel.用于鳗状鱼的名字中，如 electric eel，moray eel
- Moray eels, garfish and trumpetfish were roaming and snapping at a plethora of potential prey.
- Moray eels, nudibranchs, stingrays, shellfish, sea urchins and sea stars were out and about, while the polyps of black corals and other gorgonians were feeding.
- With its elongated snake-like body, the Leopard Moray eel moves very gently from one end to the other in the tank.
- Moray eels may look aggressive but that is because they need to gulp water continuously to force it through their gills.
- Electric eels are not really eels, they are actually ostariophysians, but have a strong physical resemblance to true eels.
Phrases
(as) slippery as an eel
1Too slippery to catch hold of or hold on to.
the ball was as slippery as an eel- 1.1Elusive or evasive.the man was wanted in a dozen countries but was as slippery as an eel
- 1.1Elusive or evasive.
Origin
Old English ǣl, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch aal and German Aal.