common eel

1. 1.

   eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn; found in Europe and America; marketed both fresh and smoked

   Synonymsfreshwater eel

   Broadereel

   Part ofAnguilla

   Partseel

Questions about common eel

What does common eel mean?

common eel means "eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn; found in Europe and America; marketed both fresh and smoked".

What is another word for common eel?

Close synonyms include freshwater eel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is common eel a common word?

common eel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.