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

1 sense of freshwater eel

Sense 1
common eel, freshwater eel -- (eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn; found in Europe and America; marketed both fresh and smoked)
       => eel -- (voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins)