Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A long slender salamander which lives in the mud, as Siren lacertina or Murænopsis tridactyla. Also called
mudpuppy . Seeaxolotl . - noun An eel of any kind; especially, in New England, a yellow-bellied sluggish variety of the common eel, found in muddy water.
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Examples
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The mud-eel and the Congo "snake" of the Southern States, and the "hell-bender" of the Ohio valley and south are all Salamanders.
Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Girl Scouts of the United States of America 1918
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His Excellency señor don What's-his-Name was in their eyes, a mud-eel, and in their lingo a _congrio_; the illustrious orator
The Torrent Entre Naranjos Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897
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