Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun eel

2 senses of eel

Sense 1
eel -- (the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled)
       => fish -- (the flesh of fish used as food; "in Japan most fish is eaten raw"; "after the scare about foot-and-mouth disease a lot of people started eating fish instead of meat"; "they have a chef who specializes in fish")

Sense 2
eel -- (voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins)
       => soft-finned fish, malacopterygian -- (any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii)