Synonyms for eel
ileel

Princeton's WordNet

1. eelnoun

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

2. eelnoun

   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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1. • Fish
   • Soft-finned Fish

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1. List of paraphrases for "eel":

   anguilla

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1. List of known nicknames for "EeL":

   Ele Block

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1. eel

   Synonyms:
   Unagi

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1. Vanderbilt University neurobiologist Kenneth Catania:

   What I like about these findings is they are inevitable and yet incredible, we know from basic physics that bringing two electrical poles together concentrates the electric field, and we know from basic muscle physiology that running a muscle too fast for too long causes exhaustion. But I would never have imagined an electric eel could produce the same results.

2. Richard Freeman:

   Therefore we cant discount the possibility that what people see and believe is the Loch Ness monster might be a giant eel. i dont believe the eel theory has killed off the Loch Ness Monster, quite the reverse in fact.

3. Charles Littnan:

   This is a good example that no matter how well studied or watched an animal is, it is always going to present The HMSRP with something The HMSRP have never seen before, sometimes it is an amazing demonstration of intelligence or physical ability, sometimes it is a juvenile seal with an eel stuck in its nostril.

4. Pak Fakir:

   The Thai state is like an oiled, slippery eel.

5. Neil Gemmell:

   Eels are very plentiful in the loch system - every single sampling site that we went to pretty much had eels and the sheer volume of it was a bit of a surprise, we can't exclude the possibility that there's a giant eel in Loch Ness but we don't know whether these samples we've collected are from a giant beast or just an ordinary one - so there's still this element of 'we just don't know.'.