conger

Everyday

1. A large sea eel with grey or black skin, living in rocky places and wrecks in the sea around Europe and elsewhere; it can grow longer than a tall man. tree →
2. Its flesh as food. tree →

In the lessons

In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland the Mock Turtle's teacher at the school in the sea was «an old conger-eel» who taught «Drawling, Stretching and Fainting in Coils» – Carroll's jokes on Drawing, Sketching and Painting in Oils. In nature lessons: congers are fish, not snakes; they hide in holes and come out at night to hunt. Safety: congers can bite hard.

Examples

• A huge conger lived in the old shipwreck. tree →
• The divers saw a conger eel peeping from a hole in the rock. tree →
• The Mock Turtle's drawling-master was an old conger-eel. tree →
• Fishermen caught a conger as long as the boat. tree →
• A conger is a fish, not a snake. tree →
• Congers come out at night to hunt. tree →

Note

Countable. Said «KONG-ger». Usually called a «conger eel».