Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various bottom-dwelling marine fishes of the family Zoarcidae, having an elongated body and a large head.
- n. See burbot.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The conger-eel or lamper-eel, Zoarces anguillaris, of North America. See lamper-eel.
- n. A local English name of the eel-mother or viviparous blenny, Zoarces viviparus.
- n. A local English name of the burbot, Lota vulgaris.
Wiktionary
- n. Any fish of the family Zoarcidae.
- n. obsolete A yellow flower of uncertain type, possibly the eel-ware.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A European fish (Zoarces viviparus), remarkable for producing living young; -- called also
greenbone ,guffer ,bard , andMaroona eel . Also, an American species (Z. anguillaris), -- called alsomutton fish , and, erroneously,congo eel ,ling , andlamper eel . Both are edible, but of little value. - n. A fresh-water fish, the burbot.
- n. (Zoöl.) See Eelpout.
WordNet 3.0
- n. elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth
- n. marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas
Etymologies
- Old English ǣlepūte (eel + pout). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Rough Fish burbot eel eelpout festival lake lawyer leech ling minnesota”
“There's some hardwater folks that swear eelpout taste like lobster.”
“Skarlis, for example, colors his jig purple where the forage is sheepshead or bluegill, green for sunfish, orange and yellow for perch, and black or brown for bullhead or eelpout.”
“This month entering its 25th year, the festival celebrates a fish of many names -- burbot, eelpout, pout, ling -- a freshwater cod that breeds beneath the ice and feeds most willingly after dark.”
“We show in the eelpout, Zoarces viviparus, a bioindicator fish species for environmental monitoring from North and Baltic Seas Helcom, that thermally limited oxygen delivery closely matches environmental temperatures beyond which growth performance and abundance decrease.”
“The dogfish can be either and eelpout/burbot a freshwater cod or a bowfin.”
“At seventy feet, an eelpout swam through the light, winding its body in the direction of the Apostles.”
“So as the sun dropped and the temperature plummeted and the sensible people among us huddled around the fire eating frozen balls of butter and sugar (the musher's answer to energy bars), Wade trudged onto the ice with eelpout on his mind.”
“The eelpout-burbot, lawyer, ling, or freshwater cod-is a voracious, deep-dwelling fish that looks like an eel on a serious course of steroids.”
“Despite the nice lake trout of the first day and a respectable lot of walleyes and small lakers this afternoon, Wade was determined to catch an eelpout.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘eelpout’.
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fish list
lots and lots of fish, a piscatorial
wetdreamablet, agnathan, ahi, ahuru, ahuruhuru, albacore, albicore, alec, alewife, allice, allis, amberjack and 840 more...
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• De rerum natura
What is this list about?
Interesting words in nature and natural science (in any language!).
What kind of words am I supposed to add?
You can add species names that you lov...lagerstätte, parthenogenesis, bushbaby, lepidoptera, dinoflagellate, pupation, chrysalis, ephemeroptera, deinococcus radio..., homoplasy, sciophilous, syncytium and 218 more...
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fish
masked stargazer, puddingwife, garden eel, swollen-headed co..., velvet belly, curious wormfish, gorgeous barb, bumpytail ragged-..., upside down sleeper, crazy fish, white sucker, clown toado and 211 more...
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Eels
Words and phrases about eels.
apodal, conger, grig, never served raw, eelpout, eel, eelskin briefcase, eelskin, tribes in Persia ..., sniggling, sniggle, eel spear and 130 more...
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Underwaterritory
When you're underwater, what do you see or experience? Let's dive...
(Here's a cute little related list called Fishful Thinking...)underwater, curglaff, submarine, underwater habitat, diving bell, paravane, bottom trawling, sediment traps, torpedo, mines, shipwreck, sonar and 214 more...
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bilby's Words
pandemic, whirl, guffaw, ethereal, feisty, dunt, ephemeral, pule, flipergebet, prink, maunder, gammon and 1023 more...
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Compounds That Look Freakish
You know who you are, freakish compounds. Though very useful, some of these words just don't seem right together--or, their meanings are so far from what the two (or more) component words suggest t...
nightjar, bullfinch, grassquit, bananaquit, ovenbird, waxwing, stonechat, wheatear, bushtit, wrentit, starthroat, godwit and 158 more...
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Critters
cockle, cicada, appaloosa, brachiopod, bivalve, aye-aye, cygnet, alewife, chamois, ermine, drake, dugong and 381 more...
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Best beasts
agouti, doodlebug, colugo, yeti crab, gribble, unau, kudu, basenji, boomslang, triantelope, acouchy, hallucigenia and 75 more...
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Fishful thinking
"It was then that Delirium noticed that she had absent-mindedly transformed into a hundred and eleven perfect, tiny multicolored fish."
Assortment of fishy or somehow entertaining fish...piscary, fishery, hatchery, pisces, piscine, piscation, piscatorial, pescetarian, piscivorous, expiscate, expiscatory, fishmonger and 81 more...
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trout, trout, trout!
fish that are fun to say
trout, gar, walleye, mooneye, arctic char, sockeye salmon, chum, freshwater drum, three-spine stick..., eel, waccamaw killfish, shad and 22 more...
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In the family
Words that members of my family like using, some of them madeupical.
moose, fricasseed, darus, frazzle, gallivanting, exhausticated, skedaddle, skibbledy-hop, heffalump, narnia, couthless, tinaminamiasis and 36 more...
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Of -pouts
eelpout, rabbit-spout, coal-spout, copout, downspout, dropout, waterspout, firespout, malt-spout, moorpout, muckspout, mudpout and 17 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for eelpout.
hernesheir Not an eel? Oct 20, 2011
johnmperry different from trout pout Jul 15, 2008
mollusque She, are you my sister in disguise? She uses "eelpout" the same way you did on pretty dots all in a row. Jul 12, 2008
chained_bear Love this! Jul 11, 2008
bilby You sure that fish speaks Dutch? Jul 11, 2008
she Also the perfect word for making something like this face.
edit: bilby! Funny meeting youuu here. Jul 11, 2008
bilby Wow! I thought she just made that up! Jul 11, 2008