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 →

2) Its flesh as food. tree →

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 →
• The divers saw a conger eel peeping from a hole in the rock. tree →
• The Mock Turtle's drawling-master was an old conger-eel. tree →
• Fishermen caught a conger as long as the boat. tree →
• A conger is a fish, not a snake. tree →
• Congers come out at night to hunt. tree →

note

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

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «conger» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.