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Asian swamp eel

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

An air-breathing species of fish (Monopterus albus) found in East and Southeast Asia.

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  • Chinese Cantonese: 黃鱔 /黄鳝 (wong4 sin5) — Monopterus albus
  • Chinese Mandarin: 鱔魚 /鳝鱼 (shànyú) — Monopterus albus
  • Chinese Mandarin: 黃鱔 /黄鳝 (huángshàn) — Monopterus albus
  • Indonesian: belut sawah — Monopterus albus
  • Japanese: 田鰻 (ta-unagi) — Monopterus albus
  • Korean: 드렁허리 (deureongheori) — Monopterus albus
  • Malay: belut sawah — Monopterus albus
  • Ternate: sogili — Monopterus albus
  • Ukrainian: вугор рисовий (vuhor rysovyj) — Monopterus albus
  • Vietnamese: lươn — Monopterus albus
  • Zhuang: byalae — Monopterus albus