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con·ger

(kŏng′gər)

Any of various large scaleless marine eels of the family Congridae, especially Conger oceanicus, native to Atlantic waters.

[Middle English congre, from Old French, probably from Late Latin congrus, from Latin conger, from Greek gongros.]

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conger

(ˈkɒŋɡə)

(Animals) any large marine eel of the family Congridae, esp Conger conger, occurring in temperate and tropical coastal waters

[C14: from Old French congre, from Latin conger, from Greek gongros sea eel]

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con•ger

(ˈkɒŋ gər)

n.

1. a large marine eel, Conger conger, reaching a length of up to 10 ft. (3 m), used for food.

2. any other eel of the family Congridae.

Also called con′ger eel′.

[1250–1300; Middle English kunger, congre < Old French congre < Latin conger < Greek góngros sea eel]

Conger

a group of booksellers.

Example: a conger, set or knot of booksellers—Bookseller, 1977.

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Noun

conger - large dark-colored scaleless marine eel found in temperate and tropical coastal waters; some used for food

conger eel

eel - voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins

Congridae, family Congridae - marine eels

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conger

[ˈkɒŋgər] N (also conger eel) → congrio m

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conger

[ˈkɒŋgə^r] conger eel n (also conger eel) → congre m, anguille f de roche

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conger

n (also conger eel) → Seeaal m

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conger

[ˈkɒŋgəʳ] n (also conger eel) → grongo

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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These words produced the same effect upon D'Artagnan as the hissing of the first bullet on a day of battle; he let go of both line and conger, which, dragging each other, returned again to the water.

Two nets had already been broken by the immense weight of congers and haddocks; three sea-eels plowed the hold with their slimy folds and their dying contortions.

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