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moray eels

n. (moray eel English)

Usage examples of "moray eels".

He rarely killed fish except to eat, but there were exceptions - big moray eels and all the members of the scorpion-fish family.

He rarely killed fish except to eat, but there were exceptions big moray eels and all the members of the scorpion-fish family.

Just to reach Muroroa, in fact, Roberta had needed to teleport to another island, several miles south of this one, then brave the treacherous currents and coral reefs in an outrigger canoe until she came close enough to the forbidden atoll to jump overboard and scuba-dive the rest of the way, dodging sharks, moray eels, and poisonous jellyfish as she swam to shore not far from the rocket launch pad.

She knew, from documentaries on the Discovery Channel, that moray eels preferred dark and remote crevices.

As they drew closer, he was shocked to see that they looked like giant moray eels.

It was balanced on the other side of the middle urn by sharks tearing a hapless sailor, while moray eels squirmed in for their share of the fragments.

I ran across three moray eels in there, and they're big ones, big enough to bite through a man's diving suit.

He saw several green and speckled moray eels, the latter moving like big yellow and black snakes along patches of sand, the green ones baring their teeth from some hole in the rock, and several West Indian blowfish, like brown owls with huge soft green eyes.

Sharks, barracuda, moray eels, and other live hazards have to be handled with care.

They were more like the heads of giant snakesor perhaps the moray eels he'd seen on one of the worlds he'd visited.

Louis, his mind warped after he had just mainlined, and had glanced out into the audience to see the audience, in the twilight darkness beyond the stage lights, transformed into a hideous tangle of moray eels, gaping jaws screaming silently at him from the room.