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EEL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("eel" is a kind of...):
malacopterygian; soft-finned fish (any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "eel"):
elver (young eel)
common eel; freshwater eel (eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn; found in Europe and America; marketed both fresh and smoked)
Anguilla sucklandii; tuna (New Zealand eel)
moray; moray eel (family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked)
conger; conger eel (large dark-colored scaleless marine eel found in temperate and tropical coastal waters; some used for food)
Holonyms ("eel" is a member of...):
Anguilliformes; order Anguilliformes; order Apodes (elongate fishes with pelvic fins and girdle absent or reduced)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("eel" is a kind of...):
fish (the flesh of fish used as food)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "eel"):
smoked eel (eel cured by smoking)
elver (young eel; may be sauteed or batter-fried)
Holonyms ("eel" is a part of...):
common eel; freshwater eel (eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn; found in Europe and America; marketed both fresh and smoked)
Context examples:
Well, last night about ten o’clock in ’e comes into my bar, and the three bloodiest rogues in London at ’is ’eels.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The European eel is a commercially important species that is critically endangered, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
(Study uncovers magnetic memory of European glass eels, National Science Foundation)
After hatching in the Sargasso Sea, eel larvae move more than 5,000 kilometers with the Gulf Stream until they reach the continental slope off Europe.
(Study uncovers magnetic memory of European glass eels, National Science Foundation)
The European eel (Anguilla Anguilla) is a migratory species that crosses the Atlantic Ocean twice during its lifetime.
(Study uncovers magnetic memory of European glass eels, National Science Foundation)
There, they metamorphose into transparent glass eels and migrate across the continental shelf to the coast.
(Study uncovers magnetic memory of European glass eels, National Science Foundation)
A new study led by researchers at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and the Institute of Marine Research in Norway found that European glass eels use their magnetic sense to imprint a memory of water currents in the estuary where they become juveniles.
(Study uncovers magnetic memory of European glass eels, National Science Foundation)
The findings show that glass eels use an internal compass to memorize the magnetic direction of tidal flows in the estuaries where they were juveniles, which may help them orient in moving water during migration.
(Study uncovers magnetic memory of European glass eels, National Science Foundation)
It's an important step in understanding the migratory behavior of the commercially important European eel, and in expanding our knowledge of the orientation mechanisms fish use to migrate, said Alessandro Cresci of the Rosenstiel School.
(Study uncovers magnetic memory of European glass eels, National Science Foundation)
Glass eels then enter estuaries, where they continue their migration upstream to freshwater until later in life (up to age 50), when, as silver eels, they navigate back to the Sargasso Sea to spawn and die.
(Study uncovers magnetic memory of European glass eels, National Science Foundation)
