Definitions
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- adjective Resembling an
eel in shape orbehaviour .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective resembling an eel in being long and thin and sinuous
Etymologies
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Examples
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Dragons, with broad fan-gilled heads and fanged jaws wide, roared as their eellike bodies slithered into the water behind the unicorns.
Fatal Circle Linda Robertson 2010
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On closer inspection she saw that it wasn't hair but a migrating colony of eellike creatures that were parasitic on the creature's back.
Jed the Dead Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997
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The narrow, eellike head reached out of the wave wall and snapped at it viciously, teeth grinding on the sharp metal.
Surfeit Foster, Alan Dean 1982
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It's easy to see how an eellike fish could swim into the wide end of this cone, push through the movable strips and not be able to swim back out.
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It's easy to see how an eellike fish could swim into the wide end of this cone, push through the movable strips and not be able to swim back out.
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Precious-metals miners become trapped on the ocean floor with an eellike genetic alteration.
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He drew every limb toward the center of the raft as the eellike fish swam closer and he saw their ferocious jaws, the equal of any pike’s or barracuda’s.
Sanctuary John Vornholt 1992
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He drew every limb toward the center of the raft as the eellike fish swam closer and he saw their ferocious jaws, the equal of any pike’s or barracuda’s.
Sanctuary John Vornholt 1992
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He drew every limb toward the center of the raft as the eellike fish swam closer and he saw their ferocious jaws, the equal of any pike’s or barracuda’s.
Sanctuary John Vornholt 1992
bilby commented on the word eellike
Plausibly there is an eellike raccoonnookkeeper somewhere.
February 28, 2024