Meanings
nounsnowflake eel (plural snowflake eels)
plural snowflake eels
- A snowflake moray (Echidna nebulosa).
The Snowflake eel, a kind of moray, is harmless if you leave it alone and refrain from drinking its blood (which is toxic).
2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 68
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