fish vs eel
eel vs fishfish and eel both are nouns.
fish is a verb but eel is not a verb.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| fish | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| eel | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
eel is a hyponym of
fish; that is, eel is a
word with a more specific, narrower meaning than
fish:
- fish: the flesh of fish used as food
- eel: the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled
| fish (noun) | eel (noun) |
|---|---|
| any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills | voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins |
| the flesh of fish used as food | the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled |
| fish (verb) | eel (verb) |
|---|---|
| catch or try to catch fish or shellfish | |
| seek indirectly |
Words related to "fish"
- A. testudineus
- Anabas testudineus
- Pisces
- alewife
- anchovy
- angle
- aquatic vertebrate
- bony fish
- bottom lurkers
- bottom-dweller
- bottom-feeder
- brail
- cartilaginous fish
- catch
- caudal fin
- chondrichthian
- climbing perch
- crab
- eel
- fin
- fingerling
- fish scale
- fishbone
- fisher
- fishery
- fishing
- fishy
- food
- food fish
- game fish
- grab
- gray mullet
- grey mullet
- haddock
- hake
- lateral line
- lateral line organ
- look for
- milt
- mouthbreeder
- mullet
- net fish
- northern snakehead
- panfish
- prawn
- rail
- rock salmon
- roe
- rough fish
- salmon
- scallop
- school
- schrod
- scollop
- scrod
- search
- seek
- seine
- shad
- shark
- shoal
- shrimp
- smelt
- solid food
- spawner
- sport fish
- still-fish
- stockfish
- tail fin
- trawl
- trout
- young fish
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