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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The representative genus of Simenchelyidæ, having scales like those of the common eel. the osteological characters of the congers, and the snout, blunt and rounded (whence the name). S. parasiticus, the only species, is known as the pug-nosed or snub-nosed eel.

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