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Definition of Eellike

1. Adjective. Resembling an eel in being long and thin and sinuous.

Definition of Eellike

1. Adjective. Resembling an eel in shape or behaviour. ¹

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Definition of Eellike

1. resembling an eel [adj] - See also: eel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eellike

Literary usage of Eellike

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Natural History of Some Common Animals: A Book of Animal Life by Charles George Douglas Roberts (1904)
"... fore paws tucked up under its chin, and swam with quick strokes of its strong hind legs and eellike ..."

2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1890)
"The body is eellike in form and has a similar lack of scales. The length averages fourteen inches; there is a continuous dorsal fin, and the fish might ..."

3. Evolution and Animal Life: An Elementary Discussion of Facts, Processes by David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1907)
"These are long and cylindrical, eellike creatures, very slimy and very low in structure. The mouth is without jaws, but forms a sucking disk, ..."

4. Familiar Life in Field and Forest: The Animals, Birds, Frogs, and Salamanders by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1898)
"Both this and the preceding species have a more eellike than lizard- like appearance. They are about a foot long. The hellbender is distributed from western ..."

5. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture edited by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1918)
"LAMPREY, lam'pri, an eellike fish, with a long, slender body and smooth, scaleless skin. The mouth is a sucking organ, provided with horny teeth by which ..."

6. Appleton's New Practical Cyclopedia: A New Work of Reference Based Upon the edited by Marcus Benjamin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick, Gerald Van Casteel, George Jotham Hagar (1920)
"... LAMPREY. eellike body, a round, sucking mouth with numerous teeth, and seven round gill holes on each side of the neck. Europe has two abundant species, ..."

7. The Watchers of the Trails: A Book of Animal Life by Charles George Douglas Roberts (1904)
"... fore paws tucked up under its chin, and swam with quick strokes of its strong hind legs and eellike ..."

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