- eel - the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled
--1 is a kind of fish
--1 is a part of common eel, freshwater eel
--1 has particulars: elver- eel - voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins
--2 is a kind of soft-finned fish, malacopterygian
--2 is a member of Anguilliformes, order Anguilliformes, order Apodes
--2 has particulars:elver; common eel, freshwater eel; tuna, Anguilla sucklandii; moray, moray eel; conger, conger eel - eel - voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins