Wiktionary
n. Any of various brightly colored marine eels of the family Muraenidae, of warm coastal waters.
WordNet
n. family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked [syn: moray]
Wikipedia
Moray eels or Muraenidae are a family of cosmopolitan eels. The approximately 200 species in 15 genera are almost exclusively marine, but several species are regularly seen in brackish water, and a few, for example the freshwater moray (Gymnothorax polyuranodon), can sometimes be found in fresh water.
The smallest moray is likely Snyder's moray (Anarchias leucurus), which attains a maximum length of , while the longest species, the slender giant moray (Strophidon sathete) reaches up to . The largest in terms of total mass is the giant moray (Gymnothorax javanicus), which reaches in length and in weight.
Usage examples of "moray eel".
As the barge carrying the heavy harbor chain was about to reach the Seatower, a giant moray eel erupted from the water.
Nearly twenty feet long, though most of its body remained below the waterline, the moray eel was covered in thick, mottled, brown, leathery skin.
But back in New York, in that moray eel trap, he took the same chance of being killed as the rest of us.
The moray eel came slowly out of the hole in the coral, its jaws wide.
The thing that looked like a giant moray eel twisted around and dove for his head, its gaping mouth flashing rows and rows of daggerlike teeth.
It might be as dangerous as a moray eel, fully capable of taking a baseball-sized lump out of an unwary buttock, but it shouldn't be able to do anything else.
It might be as dangerous as a moray eel, fully capable of taking a baseball-sized lump out of an unwary buttock, but it shouldn’.
Finally Marissa saw what Wendy had pointed to: a large green moray eel with its mouth open and its needlelike teeth bared.
He walked over to the portal, staring at the moray eel, before turning abruptly.
Kate Esposito saw that the trunk of the car was slightly ajar: Now there's an ideal place for a moray eel.
An eight-foot moray eel slithered along the lower edge of the portal and cast a stony eye at the occupants of the room.
What was strangest was that she had a moray eel twined around her neck like a collar.
Niall had seen one in the harbor, and recognized it as a moray eel.
Its tail, as thick as a moray eel's body, wrapped around Pete's thrashing arm, endeavoring to keep it still.