mud eel

American  

noun

1. a salamander, Siren lacertina, having external gills, tiny front legs, and no hind legs, inhabiting shallow waters in the southeastern U.S.

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Etymology

Origin of mud eel

First recorded in 1815–25

Example Sentences

Another curious batrachian, the mud eel, is found in Carolina, in marshy situations.

From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles

He turned it over idly, pausing as he did so to pull up the line which was being jerked violently, but only by a mud eel.

From People of the Whirlpool by Wright, Mabel Osgood