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