conger eel

1. 1.

   large dark-colored scaleless marine eel found in temperate and tropical coastal waters; some used for food

   Synonymsconger

   Broadereel

   Part ofCongridae

Questions about conger eel

What does conger eel mean?

conger eel means "large dark-colored scaleless marine eel found in temperate and tropical coastal waters; some used for food".

What is another word for conger eel?

Close synonyms include conger. 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 conger eel a common word?

conger 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.