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MORAY EEL

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• MORAY EEL (noun)
The noun MORAY EEL has 1 sense:

1. family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked

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• MORAY EEL (noun)

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Meaning:

Family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

moray; moray eel

Hypernyms ("moray eel" is a kind of...):

eel (voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins)

Holonyms ("moray eel" is a member of...):

family Muraenidae; Muraenidae (marine eels)

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