英:['i:llaɪk]
美:['illaɪk]
英:['i:llaɪk]
美:['illaɪk]
noun
any of numerous voracious elongate snakelike bony fishes (order Anguilliformes) that have a smooth slimy skin, lack pelvic fins, and have the median fins confluent around the tail compare american eel
any of numerous other elongate fishes (as of the order Synbranchiformes)
any of various nematodes (such as the vinegar eel)
verb
transitive + intransitive
to fish for eels see also eeling
to fish with eels as bait
to move or make (one's way) sinuously or insidiously : worm
Stories my Russian friends had told me about the hundreds who were trampled at Stalin's funeral came back to me. Finally, we gave up and eeled our way out of there.—Ian Frazier
Noun Middle English ele, from Old English ǣl; akin to Old High German āl eel
The first known use of eel was before the 12th century
effectualadjective
producing or able to produce the desired result
an effectual remedy
eelnoun
any of numerous long snakelike fishes that have a smooth slimy skin and the fins in the middle of the back and bottom continuous around the tail
1 Warren Vieira, a postdoc in Catherine McCusker’s regeneration lab at the University of Massachusetts Boston, told me that axolotls sometimes wag their flat, eellike tails when a person comes into the room.
2 The jawless, eellike hagfish isn’t much to look at.
3 Such is not the case for the hagfish, a jawless, eellike creature that ties itself into pretzellike twists to tear apart its dinner.
4 But on some topics, Trump can be as slippery as an eel.
5 Share [Findings] Electric eel discharge transforms the DNA of zebrafish larvae.