1 any of various snakelike fish, with slender body and poorly developed fins.
2 a slippery or evasive person or thing.
Phrases and idioms:
eel-grass
1 any marine plant of the genus Zostera, with long ribbon-like leaves.
2 any submerged freshwater plant of the genus Vallisneria.
Derivatives:
eel-like adj. eely adj.
Etymology: OE aeligl f. Gmc
Useful english dictionary. 2012.