eel

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 ēl

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any freshwater fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated and resemble snakes.
    — Off the United States, the National Marine Fisheries Service is helping industry explore fisheries for deep shrimp, rattails, chimeras, orange roughy, smoothheads, slackjaw eels, blue hake, skates and dogfish, which the National Fisheries Institute, an industry group, in an effort to improve their marketability, has renamed cape shark.
  2. A European eel (Anguilla anguilla).
  3. Various other animals that resemble true eels, chiefly in shape:; Other ray-finned fishes:; An electric eel (any knifefish of the genus Electrophorus)
  4. Various other animals that resemble true eels, chiefly in shape:; Other ray-finned fishes:; In the order Synbranchiformes:; A swamp eel (any fish in the family Synbranchidae).
  5. Various other animals that resemble true eels, chiefly in shape:; Other ray-finned fishes:; In the order Synbranchiformes:; An earthworm eel, also called the spineless eel (any fish in the family Chaudhuriidae).
  6. Various other animals that resemble true eels, chiefly in shape:; Other ray-finned fishes:; In the order Synbranchiformes:; A spiny eel (any fish in the family Mastacembelidae).
  7. Various other animals that resemble true eels, chiefly in shape:; Other ray-finned fishes:; A deep-sea spiny eel (any fish in the family Notacanthidae).
  8. Various other animals that resemble true eels, chiefly in shape:; Certain amphibians:; A conger eel, also called the Congo eel, amphiuma, and Congo snake (any salamander of the genus Amphiuma).
  9. Various other animals that resemble true eels, chiefly in shape:; Certain amphibians:; A two-legged eel, also called the mud eel and lesser siren, Siren intermedia.
  10. Various other animals that resemble true eels, chiefly in shape:; Certain amphibians:; A leopard eel, also called the leopard siren and reticulated siren, Siren reticulata.
  11. Various other animals that resemble true eels, chiefly in shape:; Certain amphibians:; A rubber eel, Typhlonectes natans.
  12. Various other animals that resemble true eels, chiefly in shape:; A vinegar eel, a roundworm of species Turbatrix aceti.
  13. Someone or something that is sneaky and/or hard to catch.
    — That Dennis is a right eel, he always seems to slip away from the scene at the right time.
动词 v.
  1. To fish for eels. intransitive
  2. To move with a sinuous motion like that of an eel. intransitive

词形变化

eels plural eels present,singular,third-person eeling participle,present eeled participle,past eeled past

词汇关系

衍生词
African eel African longfin eel African mottled eel African spoon-nose eel Asian swamp eel bastard eel conger eel Congo eel cusk-eel cutthroat eel deep-sea spiny eel deepwater big-eyed worm eel duckbill eel eel basket eel-blenny eelblenny eelboat eelbuck eeler eelery eelfare eelfish eelgrass eelish eellike eel-like Eel Pie Island eelpot eelpout eel-pout Eel River eelskin eelspear eelworm eely electric eel European eel fire eel garden eel glass eel green eel gulper eel Japanese eel lamper eel longfin eel longneck eel marbled eel Mauritanian shortface eel monkeyface eel moray eel mud eel neck eel pelican eel pike eel ramper eel rock eel rubber eel sand eel sawtooth eel sea eel short-finned eel silver eel slime eel slippery as an eel snake eel snake-eel snipe eel snowflake eel spaghetti eel spiny eel swamp eel thin eel two-legged eel vinegar eel wheat-eel white eel wolf eel worm eel
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English el (“eel”), from Old English ǣl (“eel”), from Proto-West Germanic *āl (“eel”), from Proto-Germanic *ēlaz (“eel”), which is of unknown origin.
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian iel (“eel”), Dutch aal (“eel”), German Low German Aal, Ool (“eel”), German Aal (“eel”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish ål (“eel”), Faroese állur, álur (“eel”), Icelandic áll (“eel”).
词源 2
From Middle English el (“eel”), from Old English ǣl (“eel”), from Proto-West Germanic *āl (“eel”), from Proto-Germanic *ēlaz (“eel”), which is of unknown origin.
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian iel (“eel”), Dutch aal (“eel”), German Low German Aal, Ool (“eel”), German Aal (“eel”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish ål (“eel”), Faroese állur, álur (“eel”), Icelandic áll (“eel”).
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