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aquatic eel-shaped salamander having two pairs of very small feet; of still muddy waters in the southern United States

: an elongated bluish black amphibian (Amphiuma means) of the southeastern United States that has two pairs of very short limbs each with two or three toes and attains a length of three feet — called also blind eel, congo eel, lamper eel

any of several eel-shaped salamanders, as the amphiuma or siren. Also called congo eel.

[1825-35, Amer.]

congo snake,

= congo eel. (Cf. ↑congo eel)