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# conger

noun (a conger, congers; also «conger eel»)

«conger» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A large sea eel with grey or black skin, living in rocky places and wrecks in the sea around Europe and elsewhere; it can grow longer than a tall man. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conger/#m1)
2. Its flesh as food. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conger/#m2)

### In the lessons

In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland the Mock Turtle's teacher at the school in the sea was «an old conger-eel» who taught «Drawling, Stretching and Fainting in Coils» – Carroll's jokes on Drawing, Sketching and Painting in Oils. In nature lessons: congers are fish, not snakes; they hide in holes and come out at night to hunt. Safety: congers can bite hard.

### Examples

- A huge conger lived in the old shipwreck. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conger/#x1)
- The divers saw a conger eel peeping from a hole in the rock. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conger/#x2)
- The Mock Turtle's drawling-master was an old conger-eel. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conger/#x3)
- Fishermen caught a conger as long as the boat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conger/#x4)
- A conger is a fish, not a snake. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conger/#x5)
- Congers come out at night to hunt. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conger/#x6)

### Note

Countable. Said «KONG-ger». Usually called a «conger eel».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «conger» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conger/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«conger» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/conger.html) on Mova free.