garden eel

noun

garden eel

noun

Etymology These eels are often found in groups, poking their heads up from their burrows, and thus resemble plants in a garden.

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Any of the subfamily Heterocongrinae in the conger eel family Congridae, which live in burrows on the sea floor.

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