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MORAY EEL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked
Synonyms:
moray; moray eel
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("moray 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)
Holonyms ("moray eel" is a member of...):
family Muraenidae; Muraenidae (marine eels)
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