conger-eel
(ˈkɒŋgərˈiːl)
[f. conger1 + eel n.]
1. = conger1.
| 1602 Carew Cornwall (1811) 97 Called a conger-eel. 1620 Venner Via Recta iv. 76 The Conger is a long round fish, in shape like vnto a great Eele, and is therefore called the Conger-Eele. 1813 Bingley Anim. Biog. (ed. 4) III. 5 When at its full size the Conger Eel has sometimes been known to measure more than ten feet in length. 1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 490/2 The conger-eel..is readily distinguished..by the upper jaw being the longest. |
2. In U.S. applied to other species of eel, esp. on the Atlantic Coast to Zoarces anguillaris of the family Lycodidæ: see also lamper-eel.