eelpout

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Any of various bottom-dwelling marine fishes of the family Zoarcidae, having a large head and an elongated body with dorsal and anal fins that are continuous with the caudal fin.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The conger-eel or lamper-eel, Zoarces anguillaris, of North America. See lamper-eel.
• noun A local English name of the eel-mother or viviparous blenny, Zoarces viviparus.
• noun A local English name of the burbot, Lota vulgaris.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A European fish (Zoarces viviparus), remarkable for producing living young; -- called also greenbone, guffer, bard, and Maroona eel. Also, an American species (Z. anguillaris), -- called also mutton fish, and, erroneously, congo eel, ling, and lamper eel. Both are edible, but of little value.
• noun A fresh-water fish, the burbot.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Any fish of the family Zoarcidae.
• noun obsolete A yellow flower of uncertain type, possibly the eel-ware.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth
• noun marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas