ETYM AS. oel; akin to Dutch, German, and Dan. aal, Icel. âll, Swed. al.
1. Flesh of eel; elongate fatty-fleshed fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels usually smoked or pickled.
2. Voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins.
Any fish of the order Anguilliformes. Eels are snakelike, with elongated dorsal and anal fins. They include the freshwater eels of Europe and North America (which breed in the Atlantic), the marine conger eels, and the morays of tropical coral reefs.
A new species of moray eel was discovered 1995 off the coasts of Oman and Somalia. It is up to 60 cm/2 ft in length with large black blotch around the gill openings. + prikaži više