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Look up: Eel

  1. Eel
    A long snake-like fish with smooth scaleless skin and a rich, sweet, and firm flesh. Eels, which are considered a fatty fish, are very popular in Europe and Japan.
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  2. Eel
    Waters:Most varieties breed in the saltWaters of the Atlantic near the coast of Bermuda. The eggs then float their way back towards Europe where they hatch (becoming elvers) along the coast and wriggle their way inland by rivers and streams till they reach the ponds, bogs, and swamps which are their homes. Eels live in these ponds and streams for about ten years before swimming back out toward the Atlantic where they spawn and then die. Description (in water): This long, snakelike fish has a smo…
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  3. eel
    [n] - the fatty flesh of eel 2. [n] - 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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  4. EEL
    Epsilon Extension Language
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  5. EEL
    Early Effective Learning
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  6. Eel
    Eel noun [ Anglo-Saxon ...l ; akin to D., G., & Danish aal , Icelandic āll , Swedish ål .] (Zoology) An elongated fish of many genera and species. The common eels of Europe and America belong to the genus...
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  7. eel
    <zoology> An elongated fish of many genera and species. The common eels of Europe and America belong to the genus Anguilla. The electrical eel is a species of Gymnotus. The so called vinegar eel is a minute nematode worm. See Conger eel, Electric eel, and Gymnotus. ... Origin: AS. L; akin to D...
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  8. eel
    noun 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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  9. eel
    noun 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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  10. Eel
    • (n.) An elongated fish of many genera and species. The common eels of Europe and America belong to the genus Anguilla. The electrical eel is a species of Gymnotus. The so called vinegar eel is a minute nematode worm. See Conger eel, Electric eel, and Gymnotus.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  11. eel
    any of more than 500 species of fish of the order Anguilliformes.[5 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/e/12

  12. eel
    Any fish of the order Anguilliformes. Eels are snakelike, with elongated dorsal and anal fins. They include the freshwater eels of Europe and North America (which breed in the Atlantic), the marine conger eels, and the morays of tropical coral reefs. The gulper eel, Eurypharynx pelecanoides&...
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  13. eel
    eel, common name for any fish of the 10 families constituting the order Anguilliformes, and characterized by a long snakelike body covered with minute scales embedded in the skin. Eels lack the hind pair of fins, adapting them for wriggling in the mud and through the crevices of reefs and rocky shor...
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  14. Eel
    Eel is slang for a New Englander.
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  15. Eel
    Eel is slang for a New Englander.
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  16. Eel
    Eel is the popular name for teleostean fish of the order Anguilliformes. The genus Anguilla is characterized by its snake-like elongated body, by the absence of ventral fins, and the continuity of the dorsal and anal fins round the extremity of the tail. The dorsal fin commences half-way between the...
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  17. eel
    Type: Term Pronunciation: ēl Definitions: 1. Any of a number of scaleless, snakelike fish.
    Found on http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictio

  18. Eel
    Cut into 4" pieces, eel is the ultimate crab bait and is used extensively by commercial watermen on their trotlines. Because eel is considered a delicacy in Europe and Asia, its price has risen sharply thus making it prohibitive to use as bait.
    Found on http://www.bluecrab.info/glossary.html

  19. Eel
    (disambiguation) An `eel` is a fish in the order of Anguilliformes. `Eel` or `eels` may also refer to: Biology: Ray-finned fish : Amphibians: Places: Nicknames: Fiction: Other uses: See also:
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eel

  20. Eel
    (comics) The `Eel` is an alias used by two fictional characters in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The first character to take up the identity was Leopold Stryke who first appeared in Strange Tales #112, while his successor, Edward Lavell, first appeared in Power Man and Iro...
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  21. Eel
    `Eels` (`Anguilliformes`; ) are an order of fish, which consists of four suborders, 19 families, 110 genera and approximately 800 species. Most eels are predators. The term "eel" is also used for some other similarly shaped fish, such as electric eels and in--> in the one-jawed eel (Mon...
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/calendar/ On February 12, 1809, Charles Robert Darwin was born at The Mount in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. Darwin was one of the last of the eclectic scientists who preceded the age of professional specialization. His genius lay in his ability to select, from the facts which he so diligently collected, every relevant point and fit it into his bold and far-reaching theories. He was not the first to advance a theory of evolution; but his massive weight of evidence carried conviction where earlier theorists had failed. He was shy and modest and shrank from controversy, an unfortunate trait in the author of the most controversial book of the century. read more

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