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Meanings of electric eel in English
Portuguese
poraquê Eel-shaped freshwater fish of South America having electric organs in its body.
Usage of electric eel in English
1
There she lies like an electric eel, giving shocks from a distance.
2
The beam hit him like a slap from a giant electric eel.
3
The electric eel at the Adelaide Gallery is nothing to it.
4
It's like the difference between an eel and an electric eel.
5
Do you mean to say you've never seen an electric eel?
6
Also known as mormyrids, these don't have the shock power of the electric eel.
7
The newspaper is like an electric eel, as one touches it and expects a shock.
8
It was bigger than an electric eel, and when Fawcett's companions saw it they screamed.
9
The electric eel strikes at a great distance.
10
Dr. Ruggieri also showed an Amazonian electric eel.
11
It's like holding on to an electric eel.
12
That thing wriggling about like a minute electric eel, always in motion, is known as the trypanosome.
13
We called Miles the electric eel, and then this boy Aiden that Pippa snogged, the brick wall.
14
Yesterday she was like an electric eel!
15
We'll call it the electric eel.
16
We share a lot of physical characteristics, kind of like the noble electric eel and the vile, bloodsucking leech.
This collocation consists of:
Electric eel through the time
Electric eel across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common