[f. CONGER1 + EEL.]
1. = CONGER1.
1602. Carew, Cornwall (1811), 97. Called a conger-eel.
1620. Venner, Via Recta, iv. 76. The Conger is a long round fish, in shape like vnto a great Eele, and is therefore called the Conger-Eele.
1813. Bingley, Anim. Biog. (ed. 4), III. 5. When at its full size the Conger Eel has sometimes been known to measure more than ten feet in length.
1843. Penny Cycl., XXV. 490/2. The conger-eel … is readily distinguished … by the upper jaw being the longest.
2. In U.S. applied to other species of eel, esp. on the Atlantic Coast to Zoarces anguillaris of the family Lycodidæ: see also LAMPER-EEL.
