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freshwater eel
(encz) | freshwater eel, n: |
freshwater eel
(wn) | freshwater eel
n 1: eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea
to spawn; found in Europe and America; marketed both fresh
and smoked [syn: common eel, freshwater eel] |
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fresh-water eelgrass
(gcide) | Tape \Tape\, n. [AS. t[ae]ppe a fillet. Cf. Tapestry,
Tippet.]
1. A narrow fillet or band of cotton or linen; a narrow woven
fabric used for strings and the like; as, curtains tied
with tape.
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2. A tapeline; also, a metallic ribbon so marked as to serve
as a tapeline; as, a steel tape.
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Red tape. See under Red.
Tape grass (Bot.), a plant (Vallisneria spiralis) with
long ribbonlike leaves, growing in fresh or brackish
water; -- called also fresh-water eelgrass, and, in
Maryland, wild celery.
Tape needle. See Bodkin, n., 4.
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