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FRESHWATER EEL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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:
Hypernyms ("freshwater 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 "freshwater 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 ("freshwater eel" is a member of...):
Anguilla; genus Anguilla (type genus of the Anguillidae: eels)
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