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# conger

«conger» in Mova's school dictionary: **A large sea eel with grey or black skin, living in rocky…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conger/#m1)

2) Its flesh as food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conger/#m2)

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

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «conger» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conger/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.