1. Voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins
   "The chef prepared smoked eel as an appetizer"
    
2. The fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled
   "The sushi chef prepared unagi, a popular dish made with grilled eel"

Derived forms: eels

Type of: fish, malacopterygian, soft-finned fish

Part of: Anguilliformes, common eel, freshwater eel, order Anguilliformes, order Apodes

Encyclopedia: Eel