common eel

English Thesaurus

1. eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn; found in Europe and America; marketed both fresh and smoked (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	eel,
definition	:	voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins (noun.animal)

part holonym	:	eel,
definition	:	the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled (noun.food)

member meronym	:	anguilla, genus anguilla,
definition	:	type genus of the Anguillidae: eels (noun.animal)