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Meanings of eel in English
Usage of eel in English
1
Now, it's illegal to sell European-caught eel to markets outside the EU.
2
Professor Gemmell said: There is a very significant amount of eel DNA.
3
Without going into too much detail, there may be an eel involved.
4
It's an eel-like bottom-feeding fish that works hard to move politics forward.
5
Boil the eel in a court bouillon and cut into two-inch pieces.
6
The clematis root disease is the depredation of a nematode or eel-worm.
7
Lori could see large schools of brown-spines and reddish eel-analogues swimming idly.
8
She flounders like a huge conger-eel in an ocean of dingy morality
9
But pretending it's an eel makes things so much easier to understand.
10
This the eel got over by swimming and the swallow by flying--
11
Saskia swam deeper, using a strange, alien motion reminiscent of an eel.
12
One fisherman gave us the name of his eel buyer to contact.
13
Once he saw a sand-eel dancing on his tail by the sea-shore.
14
Doesn't matter if it's eel, or rice bowls, or grilled fish, whatever.
15
You see, the eel did not want to leave the duck pond.
16
NIWA's eel expert Don Jellyman said the big eels should be there.
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Eel across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common