eel (n)

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type n
lex_filenum 05
def 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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Hypernym soft-finned fish, malacopterygian
Member holonym Anguilliformes, order Anguilliformes, order Apodes
Hyponym elver; common eel, freshwater eel; tuna, Anguilla sucklandii; moray, moray eel; conger, conger eel
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Hyponym soft-finned fish, malacopterygian
Member meronym Anguilliformes, order Anguilliformes, order Apodes
Hypernym elver; common eel, freshwater eel; tuna, Anguilla sucklandii; moray, moray eel; conger, conger eel

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