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Electric eel
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eel
eel common name for any fish of the 10 families constituting the order Anguilliformes, and characterized by a long snakelike body covered with minute scales embedded in the skin. Eels lack the hind pair of fins, adapting them for wriggling in the mud and through the crevices of reefs and rocky... Read more |
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electric fish
electric fish name for various fish that produce electricity by means of organs usually developed from modified muscle tissue. The electric eel ( Electrophorus electricus ), a South American freshwater fish related to the carp, has organs along the ventral surface capable of producing from 450 to... Read more |
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Swamp eels
Swamp Eels Belonging to the order Synbranchiformes, swamp eels are very slim fish with elongated bodies and reduced fins. Their gill system, which is very small, is linked to other organs to help them breathe air. Swamp eels live in tropical and subtropical habitats. They usually are found in... Read more |
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Eels
EelsPop group A singer, songwriter, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, and producer known simply as "E" is the man responsible for eels. A native of Virginia who later moved to Los Angeles, E was born Mark Oliver Everett on April 9, 1963. His first instrument was a drum kit. Music soon became an... Read more |
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semelparity
semelparity The strategy of reproducing only once during a lifetime, after which death is inevitable, even if the reproductive event is unfruitful. Semelparous organisms include most annual and biennial plants and representatives from most invertebrate animal taxa; vertebrate examples include the... Read more |
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lamprey
lamprey name for several primitive marine and freshwater fishes of the order Cyclostomata, or jawless fishes (see cyclostome ). As in the other member of the order, the hagfish , the adult lamprey retains the notochord , the supporting structure that in higher vertebrates is found only in the... Read more |
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Tony Beaver
Beaver, Tony, giant hero of tall tales told by lumberjacks of the Southern mountains, was “a sort of relative” of Paul Bunyan, whose mythical exploits he equals. In the Cumberland Mountains, one of his camps was located “up Eel River”; another was “way up in the... Read more |
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Bann
Bann longest river of Northern Ireland, rising as the Upper Bann in the Mourne Mts. and flowing 40 mi (64 km) NW to the southern end of Lough Neagh. It leaves the lake at its north shore as the Lower Bann and flows 40 mi (64 km) north past Coleraine to the Atlantic Ocean. It has important salmon... Read more |
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Shamokin
Shamokin, Pennsylvania/USA Boyd's Stone‐Coal Quarry, Boydtown, New Town Founded in 1835 by two coal speculators, one of whom was John C. Boyd, it was renamed at his suggestion from a Delaware word schahamoki ‘place of eels’ or ‘place of horns’.... Read more |
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Captain Moonlight: A story of sequins and squealing rubber
...after failing to get their free burgers and pulled the manager over the counter the better to scream "blue murder" at him. That...chicken and fish (snake goes well, too, not unlike smoked eel) and cover with a thick mat of braided leaves and branches and... |
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Long Squeal the Queen!(Mississippi Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo)
...four-pound king snake eel. Actually, the Queen...toward T.J. and his eel; queens, of course...trio leaps sideways, squealing the way you would imagine teenage girls squealing when presented with a...tents strung together over a patch of ... |
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Life stories: Slimy, wriggly, disgusting
...seething mass of shiny black eels. It was reminiscent...was a picture of the eel-feeding, a minor tourist...intrigued - feeding the eels, though disgusting...making you feel like the over- bred city-dweller...mutton flank to a bunch of eels. ... |
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Diving, James Bond-style; Travel: A luxury take on the live-aboard dive boat...
...day bed, panoramic windows over the bow and a walk-in wardrobe...stained-glass windows and moray eels. Once, on the sandy sea floor, I heard an underwater squealing and looked up to see about 25...and felt as if we were flying over the coral, past a turtle... |
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Why does everyone hateme? everyone hateme? After public vote to give her...
...trolley across a high wire over a ravine to collect stars...hyperventilating and squealing at the prospect, she...dropped into a tank of eels. Shrieking 'Help me...on the card or pass it over to their rival and eat...and goggles, she began ... |
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Blue Hill characters, distinguished and slippery.(The Home Forum)
...and set again. Now, eels are not like other fish...he had a dory with eels squirming and writhing about in eel fashion, a sight to...hogshead was full of eels, Jimmy would fit in...sheds were a bedlam of squealing pigs being chased ... |
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Somare's Paddle.(Poem)(Illustration)
...the paddle to keep balance. A conger eel slips beneath me a wheelie bin threatens...by huge bucket cranes-- slow motion squealing pigs their snouts into the trough. On...alike heave my boat out and carry it over the levee. I saw no middens, but fish and eels ... |
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What have the British public got against Fash the Bash?
...creatures ranging from slithering eels to a furry possum, to gather...the sight of her splashing and squealing in a bikini. But otherwise...personality, behaviour and motivation over the past few years while researching...handed him and his brother Justin ... |
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Last Breath; The Legacy of Rocket from the Tombs
...months, with a few different drummers over eight gigs, ending up with a few cassettes...cranks through every tune, Thomas' voice squealing with a gawkish terror not found in the...Cleve-O cohorts of that era, Electric Eels and the Mirrors, have come to represent... |
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The great Dame finally meets someone who appreciates her ; Sport on TV
...BBC4, Tuesday) there was much squealing, screeching and flapping, and that...words "incredible" and "amazing" over and over, and yes, there were tears. Celebrities...Guinea's Olympic swimmer Eric "The Eel" Moussambani. Who really remembers... |
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