conger
Americannoun
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congers
plural
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a large marine eel, Conger conger, sometimes reaching a length of 10 feet (3 meters), used for food.
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any other eel of the family Congridae.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of conger
1250–1300; Middle English kunger, congre < Old French congre < Latin conger < Greek góngros sea-eel, gnarl, protuberance
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Groupers and a conger eel, bottom center, on the wreck of the German submarine U-576 off the coast of North Carolina.
From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2023
Whether it is crabs tussling with sharks or curious conger eels, the project has delivered amazing visuals for the public.
From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2023
By July, he had moved on to the daggertooth pike conger, a sharp-fanged eel that grows fat as the mud where it squirms becomes warmer.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2021
“I knew I wasn’t in the U.S.A. anymore when the attendant asked if I wanted chicken, or conger eel!” said one well-fed voter.
From Time ● Jan. 8, 2016
“I’ll fetch it here,” said Uncle Luke, and he went round to the back, to return directly with the second half of the conger.
From The Haute Noblesse A Novel by George Manville Fenn
Bannon told Wolff that he relishes the hatred his name congers up in what he called the “donor class” and “the metrosexual bubble.”
From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2016
At waterside, Does the shocked eeler lay his congers by, Sighting a Reo driven by an edile?
From Time Magazine Archive
That there wire as is run round the line is to keep the congers from biting it in two.”
From Menhardoc by C.J. Staniland
But you know there may be whirlpools and holes and black caverns and sharp rocks, and I dare say there are regular monsters of congers down in the deep places that have never been disturbed.”
From Cormorant Crag A Tale of the Smuggling Days by W. (William) Rainey
“Hadn’t—hadn’t we better fish for something else, as the congers don’t bite?”
From Menhardoc by C.J. Staniland
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