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Answer for the clue "Eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to the sea to spawn ", 11 letters:
anguillidae

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Anguillidae \Anguillidae\ n. a natural family of eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to the sea to spawn. Syn: family Anguillidae .

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The Anguillidae are a family of ray-finned fish that contains the freshwater eels . The nineteen species and six subspecies in this family are all in the genus Anguilla . They are elongated fish with snake-like bodies, their long dorsal, caudal and anal ...