moray eel

Questions about moray eel

What is another word for moray eel?

It depends which moray eel you mean. In the sense “family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked”, the synonyms are moray. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of moray eel?

WordNet records no antonym for moray eel. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for moray eel come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of moray eel

• Full entry for moray eelAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for moray eelWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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