congo snake

1. 1.

   aquatic eel-shaped salamander having two pairs of very small feet; of still muddy waters in the southern United States

   Synonymsamphiumacongo eelblind eel

   Broadersalamander

   Part ofgenus Amphiuma

Questions about congo snake

What does congo snake mean?

congo snake means "aquatic eel-shaped salamander having two pairs of very small feet; of still muddy waters in the southern United States".

What is another word for congo snake?

Close synonyms include amphiuma, congo eel, blind 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 congo snake a common word?

congo snake 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.