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Definition: Moray Eel |
Moray EelNoun1. Family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Moray EelSynonym: moray (n). (additional references) |
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 | Spotted moray eel slithers among the reef growth. Gymnothorax moringa. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | Green moray eel caught in a fish trap eats the other inmates. Gymnothorax sp. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
 | Viper moray eel - Enchelycore nigricans. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |  | Head-on view of a green moray eel. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
 | Gymnothorax flavimarginatus - Moray eel living in crevasse in reef. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |  | A Reticulated Moray Eel. Credit: Sanctuaries. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
moray eel | 128 |
moray eel picture | 10 |
snowflake moray eel | 9 |
green moray eel | 6 |
moray eel photo | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "moray eel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Italian | murena (Moray). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | oraymay eelay | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Muraenidae. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Moray Eel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: morray eel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-m-o-r-y" | |
-2 letters: areole, merely, morale. | |
-3 letters: ameer, amole, early, emery, lamer, laree, layer, leary, leery, loamy, marly, mayor, mealy, merle, molar, morae, moral, moray, morel, ramee, realm, relay, royal. | |
-4 letters: aero, aery, alee, alme, aloe, amyl, army, aryl, earl, eely, eery, elmy, eyer, eyra, eyre, lame, lear, leer, loam, lore, lory, lyre, male, mare, marl. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-m-o-r-y" | |
+2 letters: fearsomely, moderately, polymerase. | |
+3 letters: heartsomely, polymerases, wearisomely. | |
+4 letters: cephalometry, ceremonially, eleemosynary, exothermally, extemporally, formaldehyde, geothermally, immoderately, meteorically, yellowhammer. | |
+5 letters: adrenalectomy, complementary, deuteranomaly, extemporarily, formaldehydes, geometrically, laryngectomee, myoelectrical, nonelementary, predominately, quarrelsomely, temerariously, yellowhammers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 6F 72 61 79 45 65 6C |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101111 01110010 01100001 01111001 00100000 01000101 01100101 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M o r a y   E e l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 006F 0072 0061 0079 0045 0065 006C |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47818467912397178 |
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