Family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked.
1 Once a moray eel clamps on something, it doesn't let go.
2 Rivera thought of himself as being just like that moray eel .
3 That's a moray eel , and that white bit you see emerging from its throat?
4 He looked like a moray eel in a tank.
5 Having a moray eel eat his face ought to be the least of his punishment.
6 The moray eel side of the fish tank.
8 Image: Rita Mehta But their jaws have nowhere near the dexterity of those in the 200-odd species of moray eel .
9 Some moray eel owners went out of their way to make sure they stocked fish that the creature wouldn't eat.
10 Cain has found a long, thin moray eel , banded black on white; it takes three little damsel-fish as he watches.
11 The moray eel could lie in wait for hours or even days, never moving, until it became part of the scenery.
12 Except for her personality, which so far was somewhere between a cranky alligator and a defensive moray eel , most things about her were nice.
13 The New Yorker, August 2, 1969 P. 30 Gentle blondness and the moray eel go at the same View Article
14 Its waters supplied excellent fish for the tables on board: mackerel, bonito, albacore, and a few varieties of that sea serpent named the moray eel .
15 Striped green moray eels peered at her from their rock crevice homes.
16 Moray eels can tie themselves in loose knots despite possessing a spine.
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