Definition of Freshwater eel

1. Noun. Eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn; found in Europe and America; marketed both fresh and smoked.

Exact synonyms: Common Eel
Generic synonyms: Eel
Group relationships: Anguilla, Genus Anguilla
Terms within: Eel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Freshwater Eel

freshmanship
freshmanships
freshmen
freshment
freshments
freshness
freshnesses
freshpeople
freshperson
freshpersons
freshwater
freshwater bream
freshwater clam
freshwater eel (current term)
freshwater fish
freshwater limpet
freshwater marsh
freshwater mussel
freshwater pearl mussel
freshwaters
freshwoman
freshwomen
fresnel
fresnels
fresnoite
fresolimumab
fress
fressed

Literary usage of Freshwater eel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Sea-fisherman: Comprising the Chief Methods of Hook and Line Fishing in by James C. Wilcocks (1884)
"In the pages of Yarrell and Couch the student of Ichthyology will find them illustrated and described at length. THE freshwater eel. ..."

2. Life After Logging: Reconciling Wildlife Conservation and Production by E. Meijaard (2005)
"English name freshwater eel freshwater eel Barb Barb Fighting Fish Walking Catfish Stone Lapping Fish Hill Stream Loach Hill Stream Loach Sucking Catfish ..."

3. A Bibliography of Fishes by Bashford Dean, Eugene Willis Gudger, American Museum of Natural History, Arthur Wilbur Henn (1917)
"Danish researches in the Atlantic and Mediterranean on the life- history of the freshwater eel (Anguilla ..."

4. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The common freshwater eel (Lat. anguilla; O. Eng. cd) belongs to a group of soft-rayed fishes distinguished by the presence of an opening to the air-bladder ..."

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