conger eelnoun [ C ]
uk/ˌkɒŋ.ɡər ˈiːl/us/ˌkɑŋ.ɡɚ ˈiːl/a long, powerful, snake-like sea fish
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Sea fish
- anchovy
- barracuda
- bream
- cod
- coley
- groper
- haddock
- hake
- halibut
- herring
- ray
- remora
- salmon
- salmon trout
- sardine
- swordfish
- trout
- tuna
- turbot
- white pointer
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Examples from literature
- A conger eel in a boat will rage dangerously.
- It was a conger eel, which managed to wriggle, half dead as it was, into a puddle of the brackish water.
- King: As to the heir of Orkney, since the time you sent him to the right about, I never got so much as a conger eel from his hand.
- One discovery I made regarding them and that is, that they form a dainty dish for the huge conger eels which abound among the rocks, and about this bait I must presently tell a little more.
- There are all varieties, from speckled trout and mackerel, up to conger eels, horse mackerel, and porpoises.