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noun • family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked | ||||
| 43% | 11 | They are also known as slime eels, although they are not true eels | ||
noun • type genus of the Myxinidae (typical hagfishes) | ||||
| 26% | 4 | Some grigs | ||
noun • the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled • voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins | ||||
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