"Japanese eel" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Japanese eels [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} Japanese eel (plural Japanese eels)
  1. Am eel of species Anguilla japonica, found in Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, and Vietnam, as well as the northern Philippines. Wikipedia link: Japanese eel Categories (lifeform): Eels Translations (Anguilla japonica): 鰻鱺 (Chinese Mandarin), 鳗鲡 (mánlí) (Chinese Mandarin), japaninankerias (Finnish), unagi (Finnish), 日本鰻 (nihon'unagi) (alt: ニホンウナギ) (Japanese), 뱀장어 (baemjang'eo) (Korean)

Inflected forms

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