The fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled.

Roget 248: winding etc. v.; convolution, involution, circumvolution; wave, undulation, tortuosity, anfractuosity^†; sinuosity, sinuation^†; meandering, circuit, circumbendibus^†, twist, twirl, windings and turnings, ambages^†; torsion; inosculation^†; reticulation etc. (crossing) 219; rivulation^†; roughness etc. 256.    coil, roll, curl; buckle, spiral, helix, corkscrew, worm, volute, rundle; tendril; scollop^†, scallop, escalop^†; kink; ammonite, snakestone^†.    serpent, eel, maze, labyrinth.    knot.    ... show more

Dutch: aal

Voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins.

Dutch: paling
Polish: węgorz