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adj. - Resembling an eel in being long and thin and sinuous.

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Usage examples (5)
  • The narrow, eellike head reached out of the wave wall and snapped at it viciously, teeth grinding on the sharp metal.
  • 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.
  • Precious-metals miners become trapped on the ocean floor with an eellike genetic alteration.
  • 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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