Conger
Conger noun - Large dark-colored scaleless marine eel found in temperate and tropical coastal waters; some used for food.
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Nearby Word: conge
Eel
Eel noun - Voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins.
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Stock Ness Monster: Nessie herself, revealed as the Guivres, a giant species of eel, kin to the Anguilla, or Conger, eel.
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An instrumental by ex-Yes drummer Bill Bruford is called "Fainting In Coils", a reference to a comment the Mock Turtle makes about an "old conger-eel" "drawling, stretching and fainting in coils".
Source: Alice Allusion
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