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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conger \Con"ger\, n. [L. conger, congrus, akin to Gr. ?: cf. F. congre.] (Zo["o]l.) The conger eel; -- called also congeree.
Conger sea (Zo["o]l.), the sea eel; a large species of eel ( Conger vulgaris), which sometimes grows to the length of ten feet.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, from Latin conger "sea-eel," from Greek gongros "conger," probably from PIE root *geng-, *gong- "a lump, rounded object."
Wiktionary
n. Any of several scaleless marine eels, of the genus ''Conger'', found in coastal waters
WordNet
n. large somber-colored scaleless marine eel found in temperate and tropical coastal waters; some used for food [syn: conger eel]
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Wikipedia
Conger is a genus of marine congrid eels. It includes some of the largest types of eels, ranging up to 3 m (10 ft) in length, in the case of the European conger. Large congers have often been observed by divers during the day in parts of the Mediterranean Sea, and both European and American congers are sometimes caught by fishermen along the European and North American coasts.
The life histories of most conger eels are poorly known. Based on collections of their small leptocephalus larvae, the American conger eel has been found to spawn in the southwestern Sargasso Sea, close to the spawning areas of the Atlantic freshwater eels.
One species of the conger eel, Conger myriaster, is an important food fish in East Asia. It is often served as sushi.
"Conger" or "conger eel" is sometimes included in the common names of species of the family Congridae, including members of this genus.
The conger was a system common in bookselling in 18th and early 19th century England, for financing the printing of a book. The term referred to a syndicate of booksellers, mostly in London, who bought shares to finance the book's printing. Each member agreed to take so many copies for sale themselves, and the final profit was split in proportion to the members' initial financial input. Their names all appeared on the title pages as co- publishers, though one of the major publishing houses usually took the lead in setting the deal up.
Prior to the Statute of Anne, the Conger (often seen capitalized) also had an effect on copyright. After the printing became common, publishers took the position that having purchased a work from an author, the right to control its publication continued permanently. Courts supported the claim via precedent, until the Statute was passed early in the 18th century, after which it was law that literary works went into the public domain after a fixed time set by statute.
This system seems to have been mostly used in the financing of major projects -- for example, multi-volume works such as encyclopedias. Shares were often subdivided and re-sold, so the actual balance of ownership became very convoluted.
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Conger may refer to any one of the following:
- Conger, some species of marine eel
- Conger (syndicate), a type of business syndicate
- In the southeast USA, the Amphiuma (a genus of aquatic salamanders)
- USS Conger (SS-477), a U. S. submarine
Usage examples of "conger".
When I was a small boy I fished one day for congers in the monster hole.
With an intensity like that of a captured conger I yearned to be hidden by the water.
I began a tale of an immense conger, three times larger than the one I carried, that had broken my line and escaped.
One room was largely given over to a buffet table burdened with platters of conger in souse, beef marrow fritters, meat tiles, friants, numble pie and florentine.
Upon this young actor's memory would be forever seared the information that the conger eel lays fifteen million eggs at one time and that the inhabitants of Upper Burmah have quaint native pastimes.
Figs in sesame sauce, rice with basil, another soup with egg yolk, neatly sliced conger eel, radish, and mushrooms accompanied by roe of sea urchin, several kinds of fish, including turbot, snapper, pike, and squid wrapped in a collage with varied types of seaweed, and lotus root mixed with intricately cut mussels, cucumber, and zucchini.
I recognized the Javanese, a real serpent two and a half feet long, of a livid color underneath, and which might easily be mistaken for a conger eel if it was not for the golden stripes on its sides.
Again that primaeval stirring in the trousers, reminiscent of a conger eel preparing to belt back to the Sargasso Sea where it belongs.
Now it was right that he should make the last gift which was his to give, not to the conger eels but to those who had been his friends.
In a street where furtive people were selling Clang, Slip, Chop, Rhino, Skunk, Triplin, Floats, Honk, Double Honk, Congers and Slack, Mr Tulip had an unerring way of finding the man who was retailing curry powder at what worked out as six hundred dollars a pound.