snowflake eel

English

Noun

snowflake eel (plural snowflake eels)

  1. The snowflake moray, Echidna nebulosa.
    • 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, 2013 edition, Granta Books, page 68:
      The Snowflake eel, a kind of moray, is harmless if you leave it alone and refrain from drinking its blood (which is toxic).
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