What does electric eel mean?

electric eel means "eel-shaped freshwater fish of South America having electric organs in its body".

What is another word for electric eel?

Close synonyms include Electrophorus electric. 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 electric eel a common word?

electric 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.

Electric eel — meaning and 1 synonym

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
eel-shaped freshwater fish of South America having electric organs in its body
SynonymsElectrophorus electric
Broadercypriniform fish
Part ofElectrophorus

Questions about electric eel

What does electric eel mean?: electric eel means "eel-shaped freshwater fish of South America having electric organs in its body".
What is another word for electric eel?: Close synonyms include Electrophorus electric. 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.

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